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2 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 / 3 Enjoy your next road trip to one of our 500+ client cities. Let this be your guide for AboutAbout thethe CoCovverer shopping, dining, lodging, recreation, entertainment & historic points of interest for the AMERICAN HERITAGE TOURIST www.AmericanAntiquities.com Many housewives take for when food was stored at granted the conveniences that home and groceries were sold are in modern kitchens. unwrapped. Households had History shows that in the past different beaters, paddles, and it took a lot of work and a lot bats , some of them known as of time to put out a meal. beetles, for purposes from Old or historic kitchen tenderizing meat to working utensils go by various names butter to beating the dirt out from “culinary antiques” to of clothes. Simple wooden “vintage kitchenalia”. boards, stirring sticks and Whether they’re ancient or large spoons had a wide mid-20th century “retro”, range of uses. almost all old food There are many other preparation, serving, and gadgets that make the kitchen storage items appeal to some pleasant and take some of the collector somewhere. misery out of cooking. It is Many objects are easy to interesting to look around and identify but not all. It’s not realize that many of the items always clear if a simple box people take for granted were or pot or implement had a blessings and/or lifesavers to particular name or a the homemakers who came particular use. A collection of before.n jars and boxes was needed 4 / AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES JOURNAL Volume 27, Spring/Summer 2020 AMERICANAMERICAN ANTIQUITIESANTIQUITIES EVENTSEVENTS CALENDCALENDARAR ATTENTION EVENT ATTENDEES With the onset of the Corona Virus pandemic, many, if not all, events have been cancelled, at least in April. 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Keyser Visit These Since the time that the first on cooking.” man tossed a piece of raw But, Schnebly’s interest in meat by accident into a smol- acquiring cookbooks did not AMERICAN HERITAGE dering fire, fished it out with arise from the actual practice a stick and ate it, is about as of cooking. “I had collected long as recipes have been de- children’s books for many DESTINATIONS veloped. (His wife probably years, but as the market INDIANA New Paris . Page 20 told him to use a leaf to mop changed, I looked for another Newark . Page 18 up the juices.) Aurora . Page 10 area. I started collecting cook- Piqua . Page 20 Over time, just about every books in the ’70s when a book Cambridge City . Page 10 Plain City . Page 18 civilization has developed its dealer suggested that I buy an Centerville . Page 10 Pomeroy . Page 18 own manner of cooking food, 1850s book of mid-western Mitchell . Page 10 Portsmouth . Page 18 for instance, pasta in Italy. recipes.” He was hooked. Paoli . Page 9 Powell . Page 21 Now we refer to these as na- Schnebly also was an excel- Union City . Page 10 tional recipes. and, just as lent collector, given his profes- Ripley . Page 20 writing developed, the man- sional background. “Each Seville . Page 19 ner of food preparation, also item has been described on an KENTUCKY Springfield . Page 20 did, as each generation wrote 3x5 card with a bibliographic Glendale . Page 12 Steubenville . Page 22 down how to prepare their citation as to resources. Each Urbana . Page 21 favorite meals. also has a summary of content MICHIGAN Utica . Page 18 According to scholars, the and/or significance in the Allen . Page 16 earliest recipes came from an- context of cookbook history Wapakoneta . Page 17 cient Mesopotamia, where from 1815 to the 1950’s and Blissfield … Page 17 West Liberty . Page 21 they were found on three beyond,” explained Schnebly. Brooklyn . Page 16 Westerville . Page 18 Akkadian tablets dating from Schnebly’s collection is con- Jonesville . Page 16 Zanesville . Page 22 1700 B.C. sidered to be in a class with Lake Odessa . Page 16 The earliest collection of other major public collections Saginaw . Page 15 PENNSYLVANIA recipes comes from Europe. in the country, such as the Li- Ypsilanti . Page 17 “de re coguinaria,” for in- brary of Congress and the Canonsburg . Page 23 stance, was written in Latin, American Antiquarian Soci- and attributed to Marcus ety. One curator called it OHIO TENNESSEE Gavius Apicius. As time went “among the largest, most Barnesville . Page 22 Chattanooga . Page 25 on, various collections were unique collections, specifi- Bellefontaine . Page 20 also found in Arabic, Chinese, cally dedicated to one sub- Chardon . Page 19 WEST VIRGINIA German, and Catalan. ject.” Chillicothe . Page 18 Huntington . Page 26 Over time, the various ingre- Just to whet your taste Georgetown . Page 20 Nitro . Page 26 dients and methods of food (sorry), from the early Ameri- Hartville . Page 19 Wheeling . Page 25 preparation began to be col- can section of the collection Lewisburg . Page 20 lected, leading to a standard- there is “A New System of Mansfield . Page 21 ized list of elements to match Domestic Cookery, Formed Medina . Page 19 WYOMING the various tastes of about ev- Upon the Principles of Gillette . Page 26 ery nationality - a recipe. Economy and Adapted to the Mt. Victory . Page 17 Michael Schnebly, a retired use of Private Families library media specialist from Throughout the United www.AmericanAntiquities.com/AmericanHeritageDestination.html the Washington County, Md.