Archive for 'What’s Cooking'
What’s Cooking Wednesday: Giving thanks for the calorie?
Congratulations to Sheila Fisher, whose comment on last week’s post, “A fire place with hickory wood burning and crackling. Nothing makes a house smell more like a home than a wood burning fireplace on a frosty winter morning! MMMMMM” was randomly chosen by Patty Mason, the editor of Eating with Uncle Sam. The Foundation for the [...]
Posted by Hilary on November 16, 2011, under Uncle Sam, What's Cooking, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: 100-calorie, 100-calorie pack, calorie, calorimeter, nutrition, stuffed, thanksgiving, W. O. Atwater, Wilbur Olin Atwater
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What’s Cooking Wednesday: Halloween BBQ
If you really want to be scared by food, don’t miss “Food Frights” on Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the National Archives Building! David Gregory of NPR will moderate this discussion about how America’s government became involved in food safety and how food safety will look in the future. One of our panelists is Chef José Andrés [...]
Posted by Hilary on October 26, 2011, under What's Cooking, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: asparagus custard, baked head, beef, Chewf Jose Andres, David Gregory, mamie eisenhower's fluffy turnips, Manual for Army cooks, rabbit, recipes, What's Cooking Uncle Sam?
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Food Day Open House
In the ”What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” exhibit, curator Alice Kamps notes that American citizens have demanded that food be safe, cheap, and abundant. From the records in the exhibit, you can see how the Federal Government has responded to these needs over the past decades. But food isn’t just a historic record. We continue to talk about food [...]
Posted by Hilary on October 21, 2011, under - World War I, News and Events, What's Cooking.
Tags: Alice Kamps, American Farmland Trust, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Chief Culinary Adviser, curator, FDA, FNA, Food Day, Food Day open house, FRESHFARM Markets, Jose Andres, Mars Inc, Think Food Group, USDA, What's Cooking Uncle Sam?
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Time for (school) lunch
Schools around the country are back in session, and while course loads may vary greatly, students from kindergarten to high school all have a slot in their schedules for lunchtime. On Wednesday, September 8, the National Archives in Washington will be showing the documentary film Lunch Line as part of our series of programs related [...]
Posted by Mary on September 7, 2011, under Uncategorized, What's Cooking, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: federal school lunch program, Lunch Line, school lunch, What's Cooking Uncle Sam?
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What’s Cooking Wednesday: A Commander-in-Chef’s Recipe for Vegetable Soup
The only five-star general ever to be elected President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower was a man of many accomplishments. That is why it should come as no surprise that Ike was a leader in the kitchen as well. Throughout his Presidency, Eisenhower used the kitchen on the third floor of the White House [...]
Posted by Gregory Marose on August 31, 2011, under - Presidents, Recipes, Uncategorized, What's Cooking, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: Eisenhower Presidential Library, National archives and records administration recognition day, President Eisenhower, recipe, soup, What's Cooking Uncle, What's Cooking Uncle Sam?
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