Not By Bread Alone is the online version of a 2002 gastronomy exhibit from the Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections at Cornell. It "highlights rare books, photographs, menus, and other early documents that trace the history of gastronomy in America." One of my favorites is this temperance poster about alcoholism and degeneration.
Posted on June 7, 2006
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