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.
Stateside on Michigan Public (the conversation with McLoone begins at around 12:40)
A Domestic Cook Book, by Malinda Russell, 1866 — the original, and the reprint.