Brief interviews with our culinary curator

March 5, 2025

Hear Curator Juli McLoone speak about the significance of a unique item in the library's culinary collection — the earliest known cookbook by an African American woman, which was recently published in a new edition available to all online and for sale in paperback.

The Metro on WDET

Stateside on Michigan Public (the conversation with McLoone begins at around 12:40)

 

A tattered sepia cookbook from 1866, and a modern reprint in black and white.

A Domestic Cook Book, by Malinda Russell, 1866 — the original, and the reprint.

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