Listen and Learn: Food History

What can a recipe tell us about the past? More than you might think. Join the head of Manuscripts and Special Collections at the New York State Library Elizabeth Jakubowski for a fascinating journey through periods of America's culinary history using recipes, cookbooks, manuscripts, and other historical materials. From 18th-century hearth cooking to the convenience foods of the 1950s, discover how changing tastes, technologies, immigration, agriculture and cultural traditions shaped what Americ