How do you illustrate your passion for travel? Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves, inspired by the iconic foods of countries and continents, have turned them into physical maps! These maps show how food has traveled the globe -transforming and becoming a part of cultural identity of that place. Yum!
Apologies for not doing one last week - I didn’t forget, was just exhausted from lack of sleep and looking after sick relatives. They’re still sick, so a very quick one this week…
What is your MC’s favourite soup?
Meera isn’t big on soup but if you ask her she’ll say her comfort foodChicken Noodle Udon Soup.
Mmmmm….glossy, plump, uniformly sized, sterilized raisins with the seeds scientifically removed. Added bonus: They are actually grape-like in flavor. Source: Woman’s Home Companion, January 1932.
This advertising card is one of twenty-five in our Litchfield Collection created by Boston’s Donnelly Advertising Company for the Morton Salt Company between around 1916 to 1923.
Carol Litchfield (1936-2012) earned her Doctorate in Organic Biochemistry in 1969. She was a professor at Rutgers University in the department of microbiology for ten years, until 1980 when she moved to the DuPont Company, first as head of Environmental Toxicology at Haskell Laboratory, and then as Senior Scientist for its bioremediation subsidiary.
Litchfield later started her own consulting company and worked for Chester Environmental before beginning work at George Mason University in 1993, where she remained for the rest of her career working as a professor and research professor for the Department of Biology and Department of Environmental Science and Policy.
Litchfield’s work as a biologist and biochemist specifically focused on halophilic microbiology, that being, microorganisms that live in salt rich environments. Later in her life her interest in halophiles transformed into a fascination with the history of salt. Her collection, which now resides at Hagley, covers a wide range of materials related to salt, from images of salt production and advertisements from salt companies, to salt shakers and actual pieces of salt rock, as well as Litchfield’s own personal papers, research, and work. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety, but you can view a selection of material online now in our Digital Archive. Just click here!
This handwritten recipe for 7-UP Cake comes from the personal papers of Vel Phillips, a prominent civil rights leader and attorney from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dating back to 1953, this cake was first introduced by the 7-UP company in a promotional recipe booklet alongside its counterpart, 7-UP Salad, a green gelatin-based dessert.
Find this recipe and a few others in Box 83, Folder 42 of Phillips’ collection, call number Milwaukee Manuscript Collection 231
On this Foodie Friday, let’s dine at the Kenwood Inn.
In its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, the Kenwood Inn, located on the 3rd floor of UWM’s Student Union, was a popular lounge and restaurant that catered to UW-Milwaukee students and the local community. It closed in 2016, but several of its event menus and flyers remain at the UWM Archives in the UWM Student Union Collection.
The menus are a range of international buffets, cocktails, and themed dinners.
The musical artists that passed through the Kenwood Innwere a mix of blues, folk, and jazz.
These menus and flyers range in date from 1974-1981, and are found in UWM Archival Collection 124, Box 9, folders 3 and 4.
