Preservation Week 2018: The Past is Present
What is it about family cookbooks that are so dear to us? Food can tap into that sense memory that brings us straight back to a precise moment in time the way few other things can. Yet eating itself is ephemeral and temporary.
Do cookbooks then become symbolic containers for those sense memories?
Cookbooks seem to be one of the more common items we are asked about in preservation. Most recently before our fantastic staff member Teghan Sharp left for a new and exciting job she brought in two treasures that belong to her grandmother, a cookbook and a notebook of recipes.
While there wasn’t much we could do in one afternoon we sent Teghan off with two protective enclosures that will help keep these treasures a little safer and allow her to carefully use them if she wants to bring those memories to life once again.
