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3.5 Linear Feet (7 small manuscript boxes.)
Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes publications issued by various (mostly American) corporations referencing specific cuisines to promote their products, featuring ingredients, processed foods, and recipes drawing on a wide range of cuisines from across the world. Publications date from circa 1910s - 2004, with most items from the 1920s-1970s. Examples of corporate authors include LaChoy Food Products, Inc., Oriental Show-You Company, Gebhardt Chili Powder Company, Pace Foods, Inc., Greek Trade Office, and Nordic Imports.
Item [1] promotes preparing oriental style food using LaChoy products as ingredients. Includes front cover illustration of period and ethnic dress; illustrations of product packaging, serving suggestions, and LaChoy plant; and chop suey recipe for 75-100 persons. Back cover includes list of products, request for names of grocers that cannot supply LaChoy products, and Good Housekeeping Magazine Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health seal. Notes products are prepared in "sanitary American plants," and that "Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has found LaChoy sprouts particularly rich in the recently discovered and life-giving vitamines."
Item [2] is similar to [1] except for print colors, minor typographical differences, and some different product packaging illustrations.
Item [3] promotes preparing oriental style food using LaChoy products as ingredients. Includes product packaging illustrations on back cover, showing beef, chicken, and meatless packaged dinners.
Item [4] promotes preparing oriental style food using LaChoy products as ingredients. Includes illustrations of serving suggestions, product packaging, and reference to American plants and Dr. Harvey similar to [1]. Back cover includes list of products; offer to send assortment package of four essential items for chop suey and chow mein for $1.00, $1.25 west of Rocky Mountains and Canada, if grocer cannot supply; and Good Housekeeping Magazine Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health seal.
Item [5] promotes preparing oriental style food using LaChoy products as ingredients. Includes illustrations of product packaging and serving suggestions, and Good Housekeeping Magazine Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health seal on inside back cover.
Item [6] promotes preparing oriental style food using LaChoy products as ingredients. Includes illustrations of serving suggestions and product packaging; descriptions of bamboo shoots, kumquats, and water chestnuts; Good Housekeeping Magazine Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health seal on inside front cover; and LaChoy Chinese seal of perfection on inside back cover. 2 copies.
Item [7] promotes preparing oriental style food using LaChoy products as ingredients. Includes oriental style front and back cover artwork, illustrations of serving suggestions and product packaging, "Business Policies and Practices" and Good Housekeeping Magazine Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health seal on inside front cover, and illustration of LaChoy factory in Detroit, Michigan, on inside back cover.
Item [8] is similar to [7] except for different factory illustration on inside back cover.