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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The earliest cultivation records of the sweet potato date to 750 BCE in Peru, although archeological evidence shows cultivation of the sweet potato might have begun around 2500-1850 BCE.
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Most would agree that summer is the peak season for ice cream consumption. Therefore it makes perfect sense that, in the United States, July was proclaimed National Ice Cream Month. It was President Ronald Reagan’s Proclamation 5219 promoted this national observance, designating July 1984 as National Ice Cream Month. Today ice cream manufacturers carry on this tradition …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Being a vegetarian, it may seem strange that I am writing about cooking meat. To be honest, I love the smell of barbecue. There must be a part of my ancestral brain that gets triggered, because my stomach starts to growl every time I smell the sweet smoke of a barbecue. Since prehistoric time humans from …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Our guest author today is Constance Carter, head of the science reference section, mentor, and cookie goddess. Today is the birthday of Ruth Graves Wakefield, “mother of the chocolate chip cookie.” She was born on June 17, 1903, and Inside Adams is celebrating by unveiling the division’s latest acquisition, the 1938 edition of Ruth Wakefield’s …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Women's History