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San Marino, CA 91108
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A collection of midwestern recipes combine simple, varied and wholesome family-style cooking with imaginative suggestions for planning meals.
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Shares recipes and menus for special Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's meals, and includes advice on parties, table decorations, gifts, and holiday ideas.
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Manuscript cookbook containing culinary recipes written in one hand. Recipes include those for soups, fish and shellfish dishes, meat dishes, puddings, desserts, sauces, cakes, breads, and pickles. Also contains numerous newspaper clippings with culinary recipes, as well as handwritten recipes on scraps of paper laid in.
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"Simple, clean, wholesome food of the right kinds fed to children in proper quantities and combinations will go farther than almost any other single factor in assuring them normal health and sturdy development. The principles that should govern the choice of food for children between 3 and 10 years of age and specific suggestions for meals made up of such foods are set forth in this bulletin. Meals for children should be served attractively, as the illustrations suggest, to inculcate a sense of neatness and order."
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A cookbook of invisible writing, by Dutch artist, designer and teacher Amy Wu, is an introduction to analog steganography--a type of secret writing that is hidden in plain sight. This book serves as a starter pack to run workshops with groups who are interested in alternative forms of communication. It contains invisible ink recipes and other invisible communication techniques that may be used to subvert surveillance and bypass censorship, but also inspire your community to develop poetic and playful forms of communication to nurture social bonds. In the tradition of esoteric manuals published on secret writing, this cookbook also channels the spirit of everyday access and the easy distribution and sharing of practical knowledge. Following Giambattista della Porta's 1558 popular science book Natural Magic--one of the first major publications that detailed simple but diverse recipes of invisible inks for public consumption--this cookbook aims to bring this obscure field to a wider audience. The publication includes a critical essay about the history of surveillance through a feminist and postcolonial lens. The last chapter presents Wu's own body of work that aims to revive analog techniques as a counter to today's digitally surveilled mediascape.
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Visual Materials
Eight boys rehearsing on stage for the Christmas Pageant at Polytechnic Elementary School at 1030 East California. Most of the boys are wearing lederhosen and making or decorating objects. One boy seems to have a live lamb as a prop.
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