Cuma//joo mah: Cookbooks as Cultural Artifacts

While completing my Master's in Gastronomy at Boston University, I lived in Cambridge, MA, next to Harvard University's Schlesinger Library. This library housed over 20,000 volumes of cookbooks or food-related books from the 16th to the 21st-century. It was such an honor to walk into a place where cookbooks are treated with care: think scheduled appoint…