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,...
Pictured here is Your Favorite Recipes by the Women’s Council of the Country Club Christian Church from Kansas City, Missouri in 1937.The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive has just completed a yearlong cataloging project in which we added more than a thousand...
Guest post by JJ Jacobson, Curator of American Culinary HistoryIf Americans have any one person to thank for the Thanksgiving holiday, it is Sarah Josepha Buell Hale. Hale waged a decades-long campaign for the establishment of a national Thanksgiving Day on the last...
The University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender presents a lecture by Janice Longone: “The Old Girl Network”: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of Women Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:00 PM-4:30 PM 2239 Lane Hall Published by women...
“The whole purpose of summer fishing, the Old Man said, is not to worry about catching fish, but just to get out of the house and set and think a little.” –Robert C. Ruark, The Old Man and the Boy Fishing, a popular American pastime, is...
From the University of Michigan Record Update for Wednesday, June 9, 2010: Jan Longone and Provost Theresa Sullivan at a reception to honor the Longones’ donation of their culinary collection to the William L. Clements Library. Materials donated by Daniel and...
The University of Michigan Record Update features an article by Frank Provenzano, “Donors of American Culinary History Collection to be Honored.” Janice and Daniel Longone, donors of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the William L. Clements...
The Clements Library has a wealth of materials on African American history, documenting many aspects of slavery, the abolitionist movement, the Civil War, and beyond. Much research remains to be done with these materials, to more fully explore the African American...
The Clements Library and the Hatcher Graduate Library present an exhibit giving an overview of the history of cookies in “200 Years of Cookies.” The exhibit showcases cookbooks from both collections, as well as 19th century American cookie cutters and...
