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Kirschner Collection

Friends and Their Food

By March 25, 2013September 16th, 2023No Comments

FriendsandFoodIf you haven’t seen it already, I wanted to give a shout-out to Andy Sturdevant’s piece on Virginia Safford’s Friends and their Food over at the Heavy Table. We have this book here in the Kirschner Collection and it is a wonderful piece of Minnesota food history. I appreciate that Sturdevant situates the canned-soupy, gelatin-based recipes in this book in some historical context rather than playing them for laughs. It’s worth a read.

Mark Engebretson

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