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Field name | Value |
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Reference | Cookery Ephemera Box 298 |
Library/Archive | University of Michigan |
Title | [Culinary ephemera: government documents - 1917-1949] |
Date | 1917-1949 |
Collection | Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive |
Collection Overview | A collection of American culinary history including cookbooks, menus and ephemera from the 16th through to the 21st century. Through this culinary archive researchers can explore changing attitudes towards diet and health, homemaking, commercial dining and the industrialisation of food production. The material has been collected over many years by Jan Longone, an adjunct curator in the University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center, and her husband University of Michigan Emeritus Professor Daniel T. Longone. |
Sub-collection | EPHEMERA |
Document Type | Ephemera; Pamphlet |
Theme | Advertising and Marketing; Food Preparation; Food Production and Industry; Health and Nutrition; Food and War |
Subjects | canning and preserving fruit vegetables home economics war Second World War ice cream desserts agriculture gardening vegetable gardening farm produce - marketing housework housekeeper advice to housekeepers pickling fermentation commodity: sugar commodity: bread baking diet nutrition animal products cooking techniques vitamins food - composition commodity: eggs commodity: potatoes kitchen appliances refrigerator herbs herb gardening |
Cuisine | American cuisine |
Description | Collection of ephemera produced by the American government during and between the world wars, relating to home cooking, food production and appliances. Example titles include: 'Drying fruits and vegetables in the home' (1917), 'Ice creams frozen without stirring' (1930), 'Marketing farm produce by parcel post' (1930), 'Celery growing' (1936), 'Vermont maple sugar & syrup' (1938), 'Goose raising' (1940s), 'Potatoes in low-cost meals' (1942), 'Wartime care and use of electric appliances' (1940s), 'Grow more sugar beets' (1946). |
Countries | United States of America |
Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of the University of Michigan library. |
Copyright and Source Archive | Material sourced from The University of Michigan |