TY - BOOK ID - 77895183 TI - Culinary Ephemera PY - 2010 SN - 1784024449 0520947061 9780520947061 9780520259775 0520259777 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Printed ephemera KW - Food habits KW - Cooking, American KW - Dinners and dining KW - Ephemera, Printed KW - Ephemeral printing KW - Printing, Ephemeral KW - Street literature KW - Food. KW - History. KW - 19th century. KW - 20th century. KW - advertisements. KW - america. KW - beauty. KW - brochures. KW - collection. KW - collectors. KW - cuisine. KW - culinary. KW - curators. KW - decorators. KW - designers. KW - designs. KW - diet and health. KW - food collectibles. KW - food historians. KW - food history. KW - food labels. KW - food lovers. KW - food packaging. KW - food stories. KW - food. KW - history. KW - human condition. KW - illustrated. KW - images. KW - kitchen setting. KW - lively. KW - match covers. KW - menus. KW - motifs. KW - paper collectibles. KW - past foods. KW - postcards. KW - posters. KW - social history. KW - valentines. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77895183 AB - This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels, posters, brochures, valentines, packaging, advertisements, and other materials from nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Internationally acclaimed food historian William Woys Weaver takes us on a lively tour through this dazzling collection in which each piece tells a new story about food and the past. Packed with fascinating history, the volume is the first serious attempt to organize culinary ephemera into categories, making it useful for food lovers, collectors, designers, and curators alike. Much more than a catalog, Culinary Ephemera follows this paper trail to broader themes in American social history such as diet and health, alcoholic beverages, and Americans abroad. It is a collection that, as Weaver notes, will "transport us into the vicarious worlds of dinners past, brushing elbows with the reality of another time, another place, another human condition." ER -