Posts by Juli McLoone

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Bearded and top-hatted Uncle Sam figure pointing at the viewer next to event title "The Price of Milk"
  • Juli McLoone
Please join the Special Collections Research Center and the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative at 5:00pm on Thursday, March 12th for a screening of episode 4 of the documentary series The Price of Milk: The Kids Are Not Alright, followed by a panel discussion with Oatly Global VP of Sustainability Erin Augustine and Food Studies scholar Margot Finn.
Drawing of a woman on the cover eating a fork-full of vegetables
  • Juli McLoone
In 1978, Anna Thomas published a sequel to her first book entitled The Vegetarian Epicure. Book Two. This book went through numerous printings (JBLCA holds the 8th printing, issued in 1981). For this month’s recipe of the month, I decided to try Thomas' “baba ghanouj,” which she describes to those unfamiliar with it as “a salad of eggplant and sesame paste.” 
Blue and green mottled book cover with the title in black letters
  • Juli McLoone
The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive holds more than 2,400 community cookbooks from across the United States, ranging in date from 1871 to 2021. This month’s blog post features two gingerbread cake recipes from The Cook Book of the Woman’s Club in Franklin, New Hampshire, published in 1922.
Slide depicting three books on rum, Coffee, and Taverns, with small inset headshots of authors, and a series title "Drinking the Revolution" along the bottom
  • Juli McLoone
The William L. Clements Library; the University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center; and the U.S. at 250 program invite you to join a three-part series titled "Drinking the Revolution," exploring the role of beverages in Revolutionary America and the Early Republic. The first lecture will take place on Thursday, Jan. 22nd, 4-5:30pm in the Hatcher Gallery. Join us in person or via zoom.
Rectangular covers and pentagonal flap with bands of colorful floral vegetal designs surrounded by brown leather frame boarders
  • Juli McLoone
Join us this Thursday, January 15th, between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
colorful painted landscape scene with beach, boats and cargo at water's edge, boats, and rainbow over the sea
  • Juli McLoone
Join us this Thursday, December 18th, between 4-6p for our final Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Cookie sheet with dark brown cut-out cookies in the shape of trees and gingerbread men on it
  • Juli McLoone
In Special Collections, our books don’t leave the building, but sometimes the recipes sneak out for a trip to the kitchen. Last week, the U-M Library Art Alliance, the William L. Clements Library, and the Special Collections Research Center teamed up with Student Life Sustainability for a small, hands-on staff event, where we brought two nineteenth century cookie recipes to 21st century tastebuds. 
Two bowls of sliced, cooked apples. The apples on the left are bright yellow; the ones on the right are a paler color.
  • Juli McLoone
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
  • Juli McLoone
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
  • Juli McLoone
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.