Food Studies

The Special Collections Research Center on the Ann Arbor campus is home to the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive, a rich resource for studying the history of food and drink in America. The collection includes many cookery books, from the 16th to the 21st centuries. It also includes extensive holdings of ephemera: menus, promotional and souvenir cookbooks, and advertising material.

Other useful resources include its large collection of community cookbooks, and its hotel and restaurant, and travel collections. Most of the materials are American in origin, but the collection includes many of the important European works that contributed to the formation of cuisine and culinary sensibility in America.

For more information, see the JBLCA collection page or contact the Special Collections Research Center.