This is a guest blog post by Lucia Wolf, Italian Specialist and Reference Librarian in the European Reading Room Reflections on the Tenth Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, November 2025 As the tenth anniversary of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World concludes under the theme “Italian Cuisine: Health, Culture, and Innovation,” …
Various authors, languages, and cultures reflected in the latest release of PALABRA Archive recordings celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15)
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a series of blog posts will discuss the efforts of Hispanic Reading Room staff to follow recipes taken from cookbooks in the Library of Congress’ collections. The third recipe is Steve Colyer’s recipe for caldo de albóndigas (meatball soup), taken from Buen Provecho: 500 Years of Hispanic Cuisine, a publication by the New Jersey Chapter of the Hispanic Association of AT&T Employees (HISPA).
A series of blog posts will discuss the efforts of Hispanic Reading Room staff to follow recipes taken from cookbooks in the Library of Congress’ collections. The second recipe is ensalada de pimientos con naranja as presented in Jenny Chandler’s The Real Taste of Spain.
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a series of blog posts will discuss the efforts of Hispanic Reading Room staff to follow recipes taken from cookbooks in the Library of Congress’ collections. The first recipe is arroz con camarones as presented in Nilda Luz Rexach’s The Hispanic Cookbook.
Visiting researcher and librarian Isaac Carranza shares his top five finds related to the Panama Canal (including photographs, blueprints, letters, and announcements) from the collections in the Manuscript Division.
Remembering Mario Vargas Llosa, a towering figure in Latin American Literature, after his recent passing highlighting his connections to the Library and its collections.
A new batch of fifty recordings from the PALABRA Archive (an audio archive dating back to 1943) featuring Luso-Hispanic writers are released as part of National Poetry Month.
