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What’s Cooking Wednesday: Top Ten Food Records of 2011
As 2011 draws to a close, so does our exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” which will end on January 3, 2012. It’s been a great year for food here at the National Archives. We’ve had amazing guests come and speak, including Chef José Andrés, our neighbor and Chief Culinary Adviser for the exhibit; Chef Roland [...]
Posted by Hilary on December 28, 2011, under - Great Depression, - The 1960s, - World War II, Recipes, Unusual documents, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: Alice Kamps, Ann Harvey Yonkers, B1, butter, candy, chef, crimes against butter, Diana Kennedy, Eisenhower, exploding ketchup, food groups, FRESHFARM Markets, George Motz, Grains of Health, guest speakers, Hamburger America, High on the Hog, Jessica B. Harris, Jose Andres, Kansas City, ketchup, magarine, Nebraska, oleo gang, pastry chef, Pig Cafeteria, poison, Potatriots, Queen Elizabeth, Queen's Scones, Roland Mesnier, scribd.com, Top Ten, USDA, vitamin, vitamin donuts, wedding, whale, Wild West, WWII
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What’s Cooking Wednesday: Holiday Sugar Spike
Have you visited our exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” Don’t wait! The exhibit closes on January 3, 2012. Are you in a sugar coma yet? If not, there’s still time to make some sweet desserts straight from the records of the National Archives. These favorite cookie recipes (below) come from the 1966 Forest Service Fire Lookout Cookbook, part of the [...]
Posted by Hilary on December 21, 2011, under - Great Depression, - World War I, - World War II, Recipes, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: Aunt Sammy, cookbook, cookies, desserts, Forest Service Fire Lookout Cookbook, holidays, Inexpensive Christmas Cake, Peanut Brittle, Praline Ice Cream Bombe, seattle, sugar, sweets, USDA
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A homecoming for six pages of parchment
Although the National Archives Building was nearly completed in 1935, the Rotunda sat empty. Then, on December 13, 1952, an armored Marine Corps personnel carrier made its way down Constitution Avenue, accompanied by two light tanks, four servicemen carrying submachine guns, and a motorcycle escort. A color guard, ceremonial troops, the Army Band, and the Air Force Drum [...]
Posted by Hilary on December 13, 2011, under - Constitution, - Great Depression, - Presidents, News and Events, preservation.
Tags: 1952, bill of rights, Constitution, December 13, declaration of independence, President Hoover, Rotunda
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Artists at work in the National Archives
We’ve got lots of artists in the building today. If you visit the National Archives Building from December 2 to 6, you can partake of history and do your Christmas shopping and support local artists and support the programs of the National Archives! The holiday fair is officially titled “The Way We Worked” American Artisans Fair. Local [...]
Posted by Hilary on December 2, 2011, under - Great Depression, Unusual documents.
Tags: 1930s, 1940, American Artisans Fair, artists, Chris DerDerian, craftsmen, Golden Gate Bridge, great depression, Leonardo da Vinci, new deal, Online Public Access, The Way We Worked, upcycling, Works Progress Administration, WPA
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What’s Cooking Wednesday: Flour Sack Art
One of the themes throughout our “What’s Cooking Wednesday” posts has been war and food rationing. American citizens were asked to grow their own food, ration sugar, and eat less meat so that there would be more supplies for soldiers fighting overseas and for people with little food left in their war-torn country. As a result, [...]
Posted by Hilary on November 30, 2011, under - Great Depression, - Presidents, - World War I, Uncategorized, Uncle Sam, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: Belgium, Commission for Relief in Belgium, flour sacks, herbert hoover, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, world war i, WWI
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