It’s Flashback Friday! Do you have a photograph of someone in your family in a powder blue tuxedo?
See more 1970s fashion in our new exhibit “Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project.”
Image: “Michigan Avenue, Chicago” (couple on street) Perry Riddle, Chicago, IL, July 1975. National Archives, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Get it while it’s hot! You only have until January 3, 2012, to see “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam” before it closes. This photograph of a be-napkined pig comes from the USDA’s attempts to interest farmers in hog nutrition. Stop by the National Archives in Washington, DC, and check out this fascinating exhibit for free!
December 16th is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
Yummmm Chocolate!
MEMBER OF THE DONALD DANNHEIM FAMILY WHO OPERATE A DAIRY AND ICE CREAM STORE…DANNHEIM IS WORKING HARD TO RETAIN THE 10-CENT PRICE FOR CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM BARS. HE AND HIS FAMILY FREQUENTLY ARISE AT 5 A.M. IN THE SUMMER TO HAND MAKE AND HAND WRAP THE BARS…07/1974
From the EPA Series: DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency’s Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern, 1972 - 1977
December 17, 1918
Dinner served in a box car on the Vologia railroad carrying the Red Cross gifts to Americans at the front. The thermometer registered 10 degrees below zero at this time. Bakharitza
Some lighter fare for December 7 - it’s National Cotton Candy Day!
SPINNING THE SUGAR FOR COTTON CANDY AT THE STATE FAIR, 10/1972
History tasted delicious today at the National Archives as we hosted a special program on cooking and chocolate in colonial America. (It’s the last month of food programming in honor of “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” which closes in early January.)
Taylor Stoermer, Senior Historian at Colonial Williamsburg, moderated panelists Stephen A. McLeod, editor of Dining with the Washingtons, Mary V. Thompson, Research Historian at Mount Vernon, Rodney Snyder, Mars Chocolate History Research Director, and B.L. Trahos, Open Hearth Cooking Instructor for Gunston Hall’s eighteenth-century historic foodways program.
After the program there was a book sale and signing of Dining with the Washingtons and a historic chocolate-making demonstration. Little cups of chocolate were handed around to visitors who wanted to try what hot chocolate used to taste like! (We can confirm it was much spicier than you think!)
The program was presented in partnership with Mount Vernon, Mars Historic Chocolate Division, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Truman and the No-Turkey Thursday
Faced with a post-war poultry-free-Thursday pledge, President Truman celebrated Thanksgiving in 1947 about the only way possible — he ate it on Wednesday, November 26.
White House Thanksgiving dinner menu for Wednesday, November 26, 1947. From the Truman Presidential Library.
(via Prologue: Pieces of History » What’s Cooking Wednesday: Truman and the no-turkey Thursday)
This would have been very popular with the relatives after Thanksgiving dinner…
Drawing of Fan Moved by Mechanism, 11/27/1830
