What Can You Learn from a Cookbook?

Even in these days of recipe blogs and food influencers, most of us still have cookbooks in our homes. They teach us how to knead bread, roast chicken, or whip up a souffle. But what else can they teach us? Juli McLoone, Curator of the University of Michigan Library’s Special Collections Research Center, will discuss the unique and quirky things we can learn by examining historic cookbooks and culinary documents from the culinary archives housed at the University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center.