The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive (JBLCA) will be moving from the Clements Library to the University Library, where it will make its new home in Special Collections. Shaped by the donation of a rich assemblage of cookbooks, menus, and other material...
Lecture by Sakina Hughes, Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies”Celebrating African American Authors in the Culinary World”Thursday, February 21, 2013, 4:00 p.m.Main Room, Clements LibrarySakina...
Now on display in the center cases of the Main Room:Making Their Own Way: African Americans in the Culinary World With a selection of the Longone Archive’s African American–authored works from the early 19th to the late 20th century, this exhibit presents the...
JJ Jacobson has been Curator of American Culinary History at the Clements since 2009. She has many favorites from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive, including cookbooks, domestic manuals, etiquette manuals, and menus. Her current favorite is Ten Dollars...
Welcome to our new series of interviews with the wonderful Clements Library volunteers, in which we’ll get to know the people who put their time and energy into processing collections, acting as docents, and assisting our curators on special projects.Phil Zaret...
Guest post by Esti Brennan, Social Media Intern[General Mills, War Work: A Daybook for the Home (Minneapolis, 1942).]Rationing is a common practice in wartime, meant to ensure that the country’s military is kept well-supplied without unduly depriving those...
Ruth Gretzinger’s post this week on the Michigan Marketing & Design blog provides a delightful example of the power of historical research. Ruth came across a reference to “democrat cake” in a novella set in 19th century New Mexico, and...
Guest post by Molly Malcolm, Clements Library volunteerToday is National Chocolate Cake Day, and although it is not an officially recognized holiday, the Clements Library is celebrating it by offering a short history of the evolution of chocolate cake in the United...
Culinary Historians of New York and the New York Public Library present:The Old Girl Network: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of WomenwithJanice Bluestein LongoneandPresentation of 2011 Amelia Award to Janice Bluestein Longone Thursday, November 10,...
