The Peoples Manual (American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection)

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Over the course of the week, we were supposed to keep thinking about the object, how what we talked about changed our understanding of it, and, on the last day, give a brief informal presentation about the object as an item. Some people put the object in the context of American culture at the time, others talked about how it could be used in a classroom setting to engage students, and still others used the object as a jumping off point for broader observations about what the item represented.

I chose this advertisement for a merchant in Boston, printed by one Paul Revere. During our daily workshops, we got to handle a wide variety of materials. We spent time looking at them, then had group discussions about their significance, interest, use, etc. I took lots of picture, from political cartoons to trade cards to hand-colored tea plants in a botany book. I wanted to meet people from different disciplines who studied food and I wanted to know why they did.

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Hopefully, I can find some angles to entice classes in unexpected areas of study to pay us a visit. If you want a bit of my experience from last week, give yourself five minutes to consider them. It might just surprise you how politically charged your morning beverage might be.

If you live in the Blacksburg area and would like to attend, you can the view and print the registration form: Registration is due by May 15, During her career she taught graduate and undergraduate nutrition courses. In addition to teaching, Harper also conducted research for the Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station as director of home economics research.

Her research focused on food habits, food and culture, nutrition in international development, and nutrient metabolism. In , she began an interim term as the head of the Home Economics Department.

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For more about her, see the online thesis: A Fighter To The End: Harper was also an advocate for women in higher education, as both students and teachers. Our holdings of her written materials may be few, but they are powerful. In honor of her work to the university, there is a dorm building on campus named after her. You can find a great deal more material related to Dr.

While I hope I am always honoring the contributions of women to the food and drink history, this is an opportunity to look a little closer at the lives of the women, in addition to their works. Harriet Anne De Salis, a London author who also wrote a book on one of my favorite topics: Some of our readers may know and some of you may not that Special Collections has a second blog. Last week, our university archivist wrote a post about a handwritten cookbook we acquired last year. Such deep American history was not lost on the crowd at the opening on Thursday, Jan.

Clues to how early American homesteaders sustained themselves, socially and nutritionally, are everywhere in the exhibit. Teaching an orphan or servant how to cook, make candles or toothpaste were survival guides as well as primers to a brighter future.

Other books, published by church groups as fundraisers for soldiers returning from war, are time capsules of an empathetic middle class. Despite the title, the book emphasizes breads, cakes, baked goods, preserves and candies. Some recipes include wine as an ingredient, a risky choice during prohibition. This voluminous show will provide a revealing picture on how people lived their lives and what was in their home, their kitchen and on the end of their fork. In both books, the letterforms are the same, the scribal version shows the influence of the pressure of the pointed pen.

And the book is laid paper, not wove as is the Newberry copy. I know of no other copybook where the instruction is produced by watermark. How many copies of this series survive? He may have been the scribe that filled this book front to back with competent practice lettering. A quick search fails to find him.

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The hunt is on. I want to know more about this book. The Motoscribendi tour rolls out in a few hours.



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I packed all my clothes and camping gear, now the hard part comes: Getting the traveling writing kit together — pens, inks, paper, etc. And she and her boyfriend are taking their bikes to escort me to Sacramento on Delta roads and twisties just to get things going.

The list below is my first attempt at routing. August 6th — Saturday 8th: Sept 11 — 15 Washington, DC Sept. Books with text cut in wood had been available prior to the invention of moveable type, but those books were meant to be read for the text only. With metal type, there was no way to illustrate how to form letters, and Arrighi had his text engraved in wood and printed from these blocks of text.