Food as history

An alphabet of culinary traditions

by Laura Bien

posted 4/1/2007

Your mother's sauerbraten recipe on an index card. Nostalgia for nasi goring, a spicy Indonesian dish from an unspicy country with a colonialist past. A hankering for double-salt licorice. Given the cornerstone role of foodways in human cultures, it's no surprise that the U-M Clements Library's planned exhibition of nineteenth-century ethnic and regional cookbooks and related ephemera

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