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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
1. What is your background? I’m a true Midwesterner! I am from the Chicago suburbs and attend college in Rock Island, Illinois. I am a sophomore at Augustana College and will pursue a double major in Anthropology and Religion. I love learning about people’s cultures, values, and beliefs, which drove me to …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Five Questions
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Today’s post continues our “Intern Month” theme and is written by Laura Beth Jackson of Mississippi State University. I have a sweet tooth. I’ll admit it. I’d choose sweets over “real” food any day. So, I was delighted—and surprised—to find so many bakeries around D.C. And they are crowded! In contrast, last summer I visited …
Posted in: Business, Cookbooks and Food
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
We have deemed the entire month of August this year ”Intern Month” at Inside Adams, which means we are featuring posts written by and about our summer interns. Today’s post is by Brian Horowitz of Montgomery College in Maryland. Brian was with us last year and wrote the post Stumbled Upon in the Stacks about Brevet Major Alfred Mordecai. He is …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Military science
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s post is authored by Constance Carter, head of the science reference section. Connie has written for us before, see her post - Celebrate with a Chocolate Chip Cookie. Today, as the country recovers from an economic downslide, we can seek our forebears’ advice and learn from their ingenuity. How exactly did they use their talents to …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s Pic of the Week comes from the Library’s collection of American church, club, and community cookbooks. The picture featured is the cover of the 1889 Cooks in Clover: Reliable Recipes, compiled by the Ladies of the North Reformed Church (Passaic, New Jersey). This cookbook is “dedicated to their husbands and gentlemen friends.” Selections from …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
I was recently at a dinner party where the gracious hostess embellished the dining room table with Sweethearts, also known as Conversation Hearts and Sweet Talks. As you can imagine, the guests questioned the history of these sweethearts and turned to me for an answer. I promised that when I returned to the Library that …
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
My mother has tried nearly every contemporary diet ever conceived, which has resulted in her becoming a collector of diet books. Through my mother’s obsession with diet programs, I have become familiar with a variety of weight loss fads and trends–from the Cabbage Soup Diet to the Blood Type Diet, and from the Flat Belly …
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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