This site provides food for thought for librarians on working with cookbooks. Cookbooks are historical artifacts, family scrapbooks, helpful guides for armchair travel, and odes to the pleasures of good food and company. We're serving up a history of cookbooks, readers' advisory tips, and program ideas. Pull up a chair and help yourself to these tools for sharing cookbooks with your patrons. Cooking in Old Creole Days, The Mary Frances Cookbook, and A New System of Domestic Cookery, digitized by Michigan State University Libraries http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_55.cfm http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_64.cfm http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_03.cfm Special thanks to James Staub, Ann Clapp, and Robyn Zandi for their inspiration on this project.
Background image: "Vintage Silverplate - Community Plate "Lady Hamilton" 5 o'clock spoon 1932" by LePetitPoulailler, available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/three_french_hens/2417537308/. |
