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Two bowls of sliced, cooked apples. The apples on the left are bright yellow; the ones on the right are a paler color.
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  • Juli McLoone
Recipe of the Month: Fried Apples from Miss Parloa (1897)
Miss Parloa was a household name in late 19th century America. As the author of numerous well-known cookbooks, teacher of cooking schools in Boston and New York, and the domestic editor for The Ladies’ Home Journal, Maria Parloa rose far above the obscurity of her origins as an orphan and domestic servant. Her recipe for fried apples is a winner, especially if you can obtain Northern Spy apples!

Book cover of Miss Parloa's Young House Keeper (left) and title page of The American Cottage Cookery-Book (right), with the latter illustrated by a handsome goose
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  • Juli McLoone
Next Week | Fried Apples and Apple Fritters: Print Your Own 19th Century Recipe Cards
Join the Book Arts Studio and the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive for a pop-up printing event in the Shapiro Gallery on Tuesday, Oct. 28th, from 4-5pm.
Black book cover with the title The Drinking Man's Diet Cookbook in yellow and red
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  • Juli McLoone
Recipe of the Month: Avocado Toast (1967)
The Drinking Man’s Diet Cookbook by photographer Robert Cameron, offered a high-protein & hight-fat fad diet, essentially premised on the idea that eating dense calories offered satiation, while allowing space for carbohydrates in wine or cocktails. In the chapter on bread, Cameron suggests this recipe for Avocado Toast.
A greenish beverage garnished with mint, sits on a table next to a vase of flowers
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  • Juli McLoone
Recipe of the Month: Canada Dry Mint Julep (1926)
Popular culture depictions of the “roaring twenties” often focus on speakeasies and illicit cocktail consumption. However, as prohibition (1920-1933) pushed alcoholic beverages into shadowy corners, soft drinks took center stage in cookbooks for home cooks and party hostesses. This month’s recipe comes from Add-a-Leaf Hostess Book (1926) by Betty Beldon, in collaboration with Ida Bailey Allen.
bucolic scene of a river with trees, shrubs and stately rows of houses at varying distances and caption "BATH WITH FERRY"
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  • Juli McLoone
Next week : Fashion, Food, and Flowers in Georgian England
Join us next Thursday, 20 March, between 4-6p for our next "Third Thursdays at the Library" event of the semester!
Three books in a row: a pale brown 19th c. booklet; a 21st century booklet with a picture of the first book on its cover, and a newly-published black and white paperback.
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  • Juli McLoone
Malinda Russell's Domestic Cook Book: Panel at Ann Arbor District Library on Feb. 27, 2025
In 1866, Malinda Russell published "A Domestic Cook Book" in Paw Paw, Michigan. As the oldest known cookbook by an African American woman, this slim volume is a landmark in American culinary history. Join us for a reception and panel discussion celebrating a new edition released by the University of Michigan Press. The reception will begin at 5:15pm, with the conversation to follow at 5:45pm.
bucolic scene of cattle among trees by the edge of a stream
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  • Juli McLoone
Thundering Hooves in the Archives: Cows vs. Horses
Join us next Thursday, 20 February, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
wood carved cookie cutters with human figures and a ship with sails
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  • Juli McLoone
Sugar & Spice: Cookies and Cookie Cutters from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Join us next Thursday, 19 December between 4-6p for our final Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Illustrated dustjacket of the first edition of Mrs. Dalloway. Abstract yellow and white design on black. Possibly illustrating curtains and flowers on a table, but abstract enough not to be certain
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  • Juli McLoone
Mrs. Dalloway at 100: A Conversation with John Whittier-Ferguson and Andrea Zemgulys
Join us on Nov. 20th for an informal conversation with Professors John Whittier-Ferguson and Andrea Zemgulys about Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, and the novel's historical context. This event is in conjunction with the exhibit Mrs. Dalloway and WWI: Home Front and War Front on display in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room until Dec. 13.
lines of stylized text "Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf" framed by swirls and columns
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  • Jamie Lausch Vander Broek
  • Juli McLoone
Next week | Making Books with Virginia Woolf
Join the library's Book Arts Studio on the Diag (or in the Shapiro Gallery if it rains!) next Thursday, 12 September at 5p to print your own copy of the first page of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway!