{"id":1700,"date":"2012-11-21T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2019-01-14T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:22:19","slug":"happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2012\/11\/21\/happy-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was a guest on Iowa Public Radio&#8217;s<em> Talk of Iowa<\/em> program, where we discussed Thanksgiving recipes, cookbooks, and traditions. You can listen to an archived version of the program <a href=\"http:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/ipr\/audio\/2012\/11\/toi121121.mp3\">here<\/a>. Below are links to some of the items from Special Collections that were discussed on the show.<\/p>\n<p>Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts:<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cookbooks\"> http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cookbooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DIY History: <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\">http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Shelton, Dec. 7, 1865 (1865-12-07): <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/cwd\/id\/4275\">http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/cwd\/id\/4275<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Rescum Sterns from a letter home dated Nov. 28, 1862: <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/cwd\/id\/15325\">http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/cwd\/id\/15325<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Below are a few other Thanksgiving-food related images from the Szathmary collection:<\/p>\n<p>The Thanksgiving table , from the Pennsylvania Cookbook: <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/120\/7344\">http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/120\/7344<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkey, from the Pennsylvania cookbook, 1889: &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/120\/7352\">http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/120\/7352<\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Doak cookbook: The Art of Cookery, circa 1760s, Turkey recipe: <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/116\/7052\">http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/116\/7052<\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Doak cookbook: The Art of Cookery, circa 1760s, Sauce for a Boild Turkey: <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/116\/7074\">http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/116\/7074<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ginger Cakes, 1840s (page 24): <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/cookbooks\/id\/2865\">http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/cookbooks\/id\/2865<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course carving the fowl is often one of the most challenging steps of the Thanksgiving meal. Look no further than this copy of Pierre Petit&#8217;s carving manual of 1647, which has been extensively modified with manuscript additions and drawings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/11\/carving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1702\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/11\/carving.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/11\/carving.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/11\/carving-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was a guest on Iowa Public Radio&#8217;s Talk of Iowa program, where we discussed Thanksgiving recipes, cookbooks, and traditions. You can listen to an archived version of the program here. Below are links to some of the items from Special Collections that were discussed on the show. Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts: http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cookbooks DIY<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2012\/11\/21\/happy-thanksgiving\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Happy Thanksgiving!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,494],"tags":[48,56,55,43],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}