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A Legacy to Savor: The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive

Janice B. Longone (1933-2022), Founder and Adjunct Curator of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive

Join us on Thursday, 11 May 3-5 pm for a panel honoring the impact of collector, donor, and adjunct curator Janice B. Longone (1933-2022) through her work building the renowned Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive (JBLCA). The JBLCA encompasses more than 25,000 items including 19th and early 20th century cookbooks, charity cookbooks, immigrant cookbooks, food-related advertising ephemera, and restaurant menus. 

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Chinese-Japanese Cook Book (1914)

Chinese-Japanese Cook Book (1914) by Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna, published by Rand McNally & Company.

Guest post by Lisa Ryou

“Cookbooks can reveal so much about the time in which they were written through their recipes and their authors. For instance, many cookbooks were written for a particular audience, most often women because historically they were the ones cooking or keeping up in the kitchen. In the 20th century, more and more cookbooks were published that sought to bring cuisines of the world to American housewives. The Chinese-Japanese cookbook (1914) is an early example of one.” 

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Special Collections After Hours | A Perfect Pairing

Peanuts Lunch Bag Cook Book by June Dutton. San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1970. From the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. Gift of Janice Bluestein Longone.

Join us for our first After Hours event of the term, online next Tuesday, 13 September, 4-5 pm via Zoom.

Curators Juli McLoone and Margaret Carney, PhD will discuss A Perfect Pairing, the current Audubon Room exhibit, which pairs cookbooks from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive with dishes from the International Museum of Dinnerware Design.

We'll begin at 4:00pm with a pre-recorded tour of the exhibit via Zoom, followed by Q&A in real time. Please register to attend this remote event via Zoom. 

We hope you'll be able to join us!