Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive

cookbook.pdf

Russell, Malinda. A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen. Paw Paw, Mich.: The Author, 1866.

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November lunch menu for Richard Olney by Chez Panisse (Berekely, California), 1986. From the Jeremiah Tower Menu Collection.

Established in 2005 and transferred from the William L. Clements Library to the University Library in 2012, the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive is recognized around the campus and across the country as a premier collection that both documents and defines the American culinary experience. Shaped by the donation of a rich assemblage of cookbooks, menus, and other material gathered over many years by Janice Bluestein Longone and her husband, Professor Emeritus Daniel T. Longone, the collection’s strengths include a diverse assortment of charity cookbooks and hundreds of items of food-related advertising ephemera.

Shown here is the only known extant copy of the first cook book written by an African-American woman, which in 1866 was published in Paw Paw, Michigan. The facsimile edition provides additional context around the book's history. Also displayed here is a menu from the personal collection of Jeremiah Tower, an American celebrity chef who, along with Alice Waters, has been credited with pioneering the culinary style known as California cuisine.

Islamic Manuscripts

Joseph A. Labadie Collection