History of Food and Drink
Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:
El Mirador Hotel Cocktail Menu
This collection contains an undated cocktail menu for the South Pacific Room of the El Mirador Hotel. The menu's cover depicts South Pacific art and the El Mirador Hotel name. On the inside the menu shows colorful depictions of the cocktails offered by the hotel bar. The name and price of each drink is written below the drink depictions.
English Receipt/Home Remedy Book,
The collection contains a handwritten book of English recipes and home remedies, with the last few pages devoted to a description of quilting designs and a "list of plate in use" for 1838.
Evaporated Milk Association Pamphlet Collection
The Evaporated Milk Association Pamphlet Collection consists of a binder of pamphlets explaining evaoprated milk and the benefits of its use and consumption. The binder was sent as a group to libraries and includes two introductory letters, 26 pamphlets, and 4 scientific reports, the majority of which date from about the 1920s.
Timothy Fletcher House Expense Book
This collection contains three items pertaining to Timothy Fletcher between the years of 1825 and 1833: a home expense ledger filled mostly with foodstuff purchases running from 1825 to 1833 and two papers dating to 1832, selling personal effects such as books, maps, and furniture.
Food Advertisement Collection
The Food Advertisement Collection consists of single page advertisements for a variety of food products, largely pulled from magazines. Items dates from 1894 to 1962, with the majority from the 1910s-1940s.
Food and Agricultural Education Information System Reports
The collection contains statistical data compiled by the Food and Agricultural Education Information System regarding college enrollment and degrees in such majors as Agriculture, Family and Consumer Science, Forestry, Home Economics, and Renewable Natural Resources.
Gary Ann Giovanni Culinary Papers,
This collection includes the papers of Gary Ann Giovanni, a chef, caterer and cooking teacher active in Blacksburg, Virginia. The collection contains records, menus, and recipes from her catering jobs and from the cooking classes she taught for the local YMCA Open University. Also includes material related to the various community organizations for which Gary worked or volunteered, and some material associated with her sister, poet Nikki Giovanni.
Mrs. C. H. Hales Recipe Book
The collection contains a recipe book, likely created by Mrs. C. H. Hales, possibly of Portland, Oregon.
Handwritten Recipes on Thompson, De Hart & Co. Letterhead
The collection consists of a sheet of letterhead from Thompson, De Hart & Co. of Portland, Oregon, with several handwritten recipes, likely from about the 1880s.
Handwritten/Compiled Recipe Book (Portland, Oregon)
The collection consists of a binder with compiled, handwritten and typed recipes, almost all of which are for pickles, relishes, and a few other pickled, canned, or preserved items.