Ann Arbor, Michigan — Janice Bluestein cookbooks, menus, advertisements, journals, and more, American cuisine Longon, who is credited with collecting thousands of items documenting the history of the United States, died at the age of 89.
Longon died Wednesday. Her Nie Family Funeral Home in Ann Arbor . The cause and location of her death have not been made public.
The Longone collection includes Janice Bluestein her Longone Culinary Archive from Ann Arbor, where her husband, Daniel T. Longone, was a professor of chemistry. formed at the University of Michigan.
Longone said he believes the collection shows how American farming and culinary practices define local customs and traditions. Her collection included her 1800s to early 1900s cookbooks called "Charity Cookbooks" that were sold as fundraisers and immigrant cookbooks.
"Our hope is that we have collected material that will give researchers access to new ways of looking at American history," she said in her 2010 University of Michigan article. I'm here. "It could be a rethinking of the role of women publishing charity cookbooks more than 150 years ago, which were often a reflection of pressing issues at the time. and may simply have been a reflection of the influence refrigeration had on American tastes and lifestyles."
According to the university, the collection includes , one published by an African-American woman in 1866, and a Jewish cookbook published in America in 1871.
Longon's work as a gastronomic historian includes founding member of her Wine and Food Institute in the United States, author of "The Oxford Companion to Food", and host of the National Public Radio program "Adventures in Gastronomy". It is included. 1970s.
