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Field name | Value |
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Reference | Cookery Ephemera Box 341 |
Library/Archive | University of Michigan |
Title | [Culinary ephemera: war] |
Date | [c.1940-1945] |
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; Government Document; Pamphlet |
Theme | Advertising and Marketing; Food Preparation; Food Production and Industry; Health and Nutrition; Food and War; Food and Gender |
Subjects | war Second World War food supply refrigerator kitchen appliances nutrition sample menu gender: female food - preservation vitamins digestion home economics housework food - composition food substitutes rationing canning and preserving commodity: bread global cuisine baking Christmas desserts |
Description | Collection of documents offering wartime advice to American citizens, such as extending the life of electrical appliances and making ration points go further. Example titles include: 'U.S. needs us strong, eat nutritional food' (1942), 'Pack-a-lunch for victory' (1942), 'Wartime suggestions to help you get the most out of your refrigerator' (1943), 'Dressy dishes from your Victory Garden' (1945), 'Point stretchers' (1944). 16 items in total. |
Countries | United States of America |
Brand | Jell-O; Betty Crocker; Westinghouse Electric Co.; Frigidaire |
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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 |