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 libraries on Apr 3rd, 2008
Friday April 4, 3:15 – 4:15
42nd & 5th
What are you doing this Friday? If the answer isn’t “making my way to NYC for an introduction to culinary research in one of the world’s premier libraries”, then I presume that, like me, you’ll be sighing a lot and wistfully gazing at images from Libraries by [...]
Photo: Eskimo Dane
The Oceanside Museum of Art will be hosting a Culinary Cinema Series. The Union Tribune says they’ll be featuring menus too.
May 3: “Big Night”
Aug. 9: “Eat, Drink, Man, Woman”
Sept. 27: “Babette’s Feast”
Dec. 6: “Like Water for Chocolate”
Nice Choices. But for those who can’t make it to California, or [...]
Posted in cook books, exhibits, libraries, menus on Feb 24th, 2008
Thanks to engineer & photographer Jasper Nance for her high speed image “egg drop”.
This started out as a post about Edith Poston. But the internet kept steering me toward other work people have created with and about eggs. I think Mrs. Poston would have approved.
Mrs. Poston collected eggs for more than 30 [...]
Update: This event will soon be available on demand at the AADL Streaming Video Collection
I was very glad I went to From the Farm to Your Fork. The panelists represented a fascinating array of backgrounds, the farmer, the chef, the dietitian, the scientist. Their talks were thought provoking and inspiring.
During the Q&A, it [...]
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