Culinary Ephemera An Illustrat -- William Woys Weaver

Culinary Ephemera An Illustrat -- William Woys Weaver

People interested in collecting items related to food and
cookery often think immediately of cookbooks. Indeed, collecting
cook books, especially rare ones, has been a passion for many
specialists at least since the nineteenth century. Yet anyone with
the interest and determination to look beyond cookbooks can discover
a vast sea of paper flotsam and jetsam from the past that gives a
much more intimate and detailed picture of American culinary history.
This paper evidence of historical food obsessions and cooking styles,
of old social mores and cultural values, comes to us in the form of
almanacs, menus, matchbook covers, posters, postcards, brochures,
business cards, and even sheet music. Much of this material was produced
to advertise restaurants or food products; some pieces, like
valentines with food themes, were consumer products in their own
right. In any event, the companies or individuals who created them
did not intend them to be permanent fixtures in people’s daily lives.
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