Archive for 'Uncle Sam'
What’s Cooking Wednesday: Flour Sack Art
One of the themes throughout our “What’s Cooking Wednesday” posts has been war and food rationing. American citizens were asked to grow their own food, ration sugar, and eat less meat so that there would be more supplies for soldiers fighting overseas and for people with little food left in their war-torn country. As a result, [...]
Posted by Hilary on November 30, 2011, under - Great Depression, - Presidents, - World War I, Uncategorized, Uncle Sam, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: Belgium, Commission for Relief in Belgium, flour sacks, herbert hoover, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, world war i, WWI
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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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Facial Hair Friday: Make a date with Uncle Sam
Perhaps the most famous goatee in all of America belongs to Uncle Sam, the white-haired patriot who appeared in political cartoons in the late 1890s, on recruitment posters in both World Wars, and continues to appear on all kinds of products today. And while facial hair fashions have changed drastically through the years since the [...]
Posted by Hilary on July 1, 2011, under - Civil War, - World War I, - World War II, Facial Hair Fridays, Uncle Sam.
Tags: civil war, Fourth of July, goatee, Uncle Sam, world war i, World War II
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The Archivist and the Chef
Our new exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” opens on June 10 and has over 100 original records about food. But what if you could do more than just look at the records? What if you could taste them—and taste history? Chef Jose Andres—the 2011 Outstanding Chef at the James Beard Foundation Awards, host and executive producer [...]
Posted by Hilary on May 16, 2011, under News and Events, Uncle Sam, What's Cooking.
Tags: Archivist, Jose Andres, recipes, thinkFoodGroup, What's Cooking Uncle Sam?
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Cooking for your family and your allies
“What’s Cooking Wednesday” continues with this post from our colleagues at the National Archives at Denver. These Wednesday features celebrate our new exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” which opens on June 10 in Washington, DC, and looks at the role that the Federal Government has taken in food production, safety, advertising, and nutrition. It’s hard to [...]
Posted by Hilary on May 4, 2011, under - World War I, Uncle Sam, What's Cooking.
Tags: food, Food Administration, food conservation, Hoover, Hooverizing, Meatless Monday, National Archives at Denver, rationing, What's Cooking Uncle Sam?, Wheat-less Wednesday, world war i
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