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The Foodways Collection
The MSU Museum houses an extraordinary collection
of historical cooking and eating equipment, dating as early as the 18th
century. The items, obtained through donations and special purchase, are
the result of over fifty years of collecting. Contemporary additions to
the foodways collection consist of materials obtained through field research
and include interviews with cooks primarily in Michigan, photographs, and
field reports beginning in 1986 to the present day. The MSU Museum and the
MSU Library have initiated a major project, "Feeding America: The Historic
American Cookbook Project," funded by a grant from Institute for Museums
and Library Services, to provide digital access (see http://digital.lib.msu.edu/cookbooks)
to selected holdings in the Museum and to the Library's major historical
cookbook collection.
Field researchers:
Yvonne R. Lockwood, William G. Lockwood, Janet Gilmore, James P. Leary,
LuAnne G. Kozma.
Publications:
William G.Lockwood. "Michigan Food and Foodways." In Michigan
Folklife Annual, edited by Yvonne R. Lockwood and Marsha MacDowell,
pp. 15-23. East Lansing: Michigan State University Museum, 1999.
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