Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2008
The Invention of the Paper Cup
(part two in a five-part series by Maureen Callahan)
Following the Civil War, when modern conveniences like running water, indoor bathrooms and gaslights were only at first available to the affluent, certain sectors of the “have” society initiated philanthropic projects to “purify” America. While many of these groups sought to promote [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26th, 2008
Jason: I’m thrilled to introduce a series of posts by librarian & archivist Maureen Callahan. She is an alumna of Bryn Mawr College and a recent graduate of the School of Information at the University of Michigan. When I heard that Maureen had researched and written about the origins of the disposable [...]
Posted in libraries on May 21st, 2008
A big thank you to Dr. Scott Bennett for this remark; I’ve never felt so compelled to take a quote out of context. Professor Bennett’s comment was included in the Chronicle of Higher Education article Snacks in the Stacks: Libraries Welcome Food Amid the Books. Believe it or not, I don’t have particularly [...]
Posted in museums on May 6th, 2008
Zhan Wang sculpted San Francisco out of cookware. Liz Hickok recreated the city of lights in Jello. I didn’t know about either artist at the time I wrote my post on art made of food. Both pieces had the right combination of strange and wonderful to make it to Boing Boing. You [...]
Posted in lectures on May 5th, 2008
All right, Culinary Historians of Washington DC, I’ll admit it, I’m jealous. Wait…Envy, check. Gluttony, check. Hmm, better watch myself. That’s two down, five to go. Anyway, the second of this year’s lectures at Virginia Tech’s Peacock-Harper culinary collection is about ham. Sam W. Edwards III will be speaking about the [...]