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Herbert Hoover to Amanda Woodward, March 6, 1924
No full textLetter from Herbert Hoover to Amanda Woodward, March 6, 1924,https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/archives_hoover/1038/thumbnail.jp
Editing the Recipes Project – 5 Years On
No full textEditorial: This is the second of a series of reflection posts from Recipe Project contributors and editors. By Amanda E. Herbert Seminar at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. Image courtesy of the author. My first post for the Recipes Project, “Early Modern Comfort Foods,” appeared in March 2013. At the time, the blog was not quite a year old, but had already been getting some excellent attention. Friends who knew that I worked on recipes kept sending me links to it, asking if I’d seen it ..
Golden State: Recipes and Memory
No full textAmanda Elise Herbert and Annette Elise Herbert Alzheimer's disease, artwork. Florence Winterflood. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), Wellcome Collection. How do recipes make memories, and how do we remember the methods, ingredients, and techniques that go into making a dish, a piece of technology, a work of art, a scientific method? Memory is a powerful force, capable of sustaining a story, instructions, or guidelines over generations. It’s also unpredictable, malleable, incomplete,..
Letter from Herbert Nicholson to Michi Weglyn, October 30, 1980
No full textA letter from Herbert Nicholson to Michi Weglyn about his experiences working with other religious figures in the Manzanar incarceration camp.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Review of Amanda E. Herbert, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain
No full textReview of Amanda E. Herbert, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain. New Haven: Yale UP, 2014. xi, 256 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. ISBN 978-0-300-17740-4
Letter from Herbert Babbitt to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Herbert Babbitt to Carl T. Hayden about grazing cattle in the park boundaries
Ironclad Apple Duff: Exploring Recipes from the American Civil War
No full textBy Jessica Eichlin and Amanda E. Herbert USS Monitor crewmembers cooking on deck, in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. Photographed by James F. Gibson, courtesy of Wikipedia. Food rations during wartime do not have the reputation for being delicious, fresh, or even edible, and this was especially true during the American Civil War. Fought from 1861-1865, the war disrupted supply lines across the United States, making food difficult to acquire for soldiers and citizens alike. When Uni..
Mistranslating Macaroni and Cheese
No full textAmanda E. Herbert Macaroni and cheese. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Mac and cheese is a well-loved, popular, time-tested dish, one that’s woven into the histories and cultures and memories of people around the world. In America it’s an essential soul food dish. In Canada, Kraft Dinner – mac and cheese with pieces of hot dogs and a squirt of ketchup – is a comfort food staple. Western Europeans claim macaroni and cheese too, tracing its origins to the Swiss Alps, where Älplermagron..
A Recipe’s Place is in the Classroom
No full text[This post is part of The Recipe Project's annual Teaching Series. Here, series editor Amanda Herbert discusses the Folger Shakespeare Library's "Test-Kitchen." This piece was cross-posted on the Folger's blog, The Collation, which seeks to present bite-sized pieces of useful information and observations from staff and researchers of the Folger Shakespeare Library.] Cookery and Medicinal Recipes (c. 1675-c.1750) V.a.429, Folger Shakespeare Library. Image courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare ..
Summer Recipes: A Recipes Project Round-up
No full textBelgian Summer. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Amanda E. Herbert Here in the southeastern US, the summer weather is sweltering, and it seemed like the perfect time to dig into the Recipes Project Archives for some posts on how best to survive the hottest (northern hemisphere) months of the year. I'll start with Sally Osborn's post about how to make your own ice house. In the eighteenth century, fashionable women and men created these structures in order to provide their households with..
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