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Ohio State University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library

Highlights from the Cookbook Collections

Curator, Jolie Braun will share highlights from the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library’s (RBML) cookbook collection, which contains nearly 10,000 volumes.

Come learn about why historical cookbooks matter and what they can tell us about food and cooking trends, ideas about taste, nutrition, and health, and the values and concerns of the era in which they were created. Attendees will also have an opportunity to hear about some of the materials on display in the Thompson Library exhibition featuring RBML’s cookbook collection, Essential Ingredients: Cookbooks as History, which runs August 20, 2024-January 5, 2025.

Jolie Braun is the Curator of Modern Literature and Manuscripts in the Ohio State University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, where she manages and develops the modern literature and history collections and provides special collections-based instruction.

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