Narrative Cookbooks, Family History Virtual Series, and Yusef Lateef

 

 

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Special Collections Update  -  November 19, 2021

Narrative Cookbooks, Family History Virtual Series, and Yusef Lateef

LM InteriorNarrative Cookbooks: Good Enough to Read

Lots of cookbooks have great recipes and excellent technical tutorials. They make up our well-used collection of kitchen reference books. But there's a special kind of  cookbook that is so good to read, you forget to leave time to cook. Often referred to as Narrative Cookbooks, there are many titles seasoned with the flavor of the Great Lakes State.  

They take us places, invite us to a new table as guests, share the stories that make the food special, and sometimes leave the recipes out entirely. Welcome to the kitchen! Pull up a chair and enjoy some delicious Michigan tales found between the recipes

Berens, Abra
Ruffage: a Practical Guide to Vegetables
MICHIGAN TX715.2 .M53 B456 2019

Eberly, Carol
Michigan Summers: Tales & Recipes
MICHIGAN TX715 .M525 1990

Eberly, Carol
Our Michigan Ethnic Tales & Recipes
MICHIGAN TX715 .E346Z

Flinn, Kathleen
Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: a memoir of food and love from an American Midwest family
MICHIGAN TX715.2 .M53 F56 2014

Hamerstrom, Dr. Frances
The Wild Food Cookbook
MICHIGAN TX823 .H28 1994

Hanis, Marie Lapointe
The Rustic Gourmet: earthy elegance from the woods of Northern Michigan
MICHIGAN TX715.2 .M53 H36 2005

Harrison, Jim
A Really Big Lunch: the Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
MICHIGAN TX714 .H3663 2017

Harrison, Jim
The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
MICHIGAN TX649 .H35 A3 2001

Kay, Peg
A Year in Peg's Kitchen
MICHIGAN TX715 .K392Z

Honson, Stacy, and Kit Lane
The Village Table: a Delicious History of Food in the Saugatuck-Douglas Area
MICHIGAN TX715 .H6634 2011

Ludwinski, Lisa
Sister Pie: The Recipes and Stories of a Big-Hearted Bakery in Detroit
MICHIGAN TX773 .L815 2018

Mather, Robin
The Feast Nearby: how I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on forty dollars a week)
MICHIGAN TX652 .M2958 2011

McGovern, Mandy
My Little Michigan Kitchen: Recipes and Stories from a Homemade Life Lived Well
MICHIGAN TX715 .M347 2019

Mickelson, Bonnie Stewart
Hollyhocks & Radishes: Mrs. Chard's Almanac Cookbook
MICHIGAN TX715 .M6333 1989

Moore, Deborah D.
A Prepper's Cookbook: 20 years of cooking in the woods
MICHIGAN TX833.5 .M66 2016

Narrative Cookbooks

Upcoming Family History Virtual Series Sessions

There are 2 programs left in our Family History Virtual Series:

Online Newspaper Databases - December 2, 2021 - 6:30PM-7:30PM
The Library of Michigan has one of the most comprehensive collections of Michigan newspapers. See examples of unique periodicals published in our state and learn strategies for navigating the various online collections of digitized Michigan news publications.

Family History Virtual Study Hall - January 6, 2022 - 6:30PM-7:30PM
Join us for an informal review session to discuss material covered in the previous virtual program as well as to ask questions about other family history topics.

Registration information may be found by going to www.Michigan.gov/FamilyHistory. Additionally, the 2022 schedule of programs is being finalized and will announced in the next Special Collections Update. Stay tuned!

Family History Virtual Series December

Yusef LateefMIchigan Music Collection:  Yusef Lateef (1920-2013)

Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston) was Jazz tenor saxophonist, flutist, and bandleader. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1920, Lateef spent much of his early life in Detroit when his family moved there in 1925. He moved to New York in 1946 and worked with big bands, including Dizzy Gillespie's (1949-50). Returning to Detroit, he took his Muslim name while studying flute and composition at Wayne State University. He led a quintet that played hard bop and also adapted Asian and Middle Eastern music to jazz. Again in New York, he joined Charles Mingus (1960, 1961) and Cannonball Adderley (1962-64), and led groups. His albums include Eastern Sounds (1961) and Live at Pep's (1964). By this time he also played oboe, bassoon, and non-Western reeds and flutes. His playing moved toward free jazz (mid-1960s) and disco (late 1970s). Lateef also spent several years teaching music in higher education institutions in New York, Massachusetts, and Nigeria. His 1988 album Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony earned him the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. In 2010 Lateef received the lifetime Jazz Master Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. He passed away in Massachusetts in 2013.

Eastern sounds
MICHIGAN AV M1366 .L384 1991

The Gentle Giant
MICHIGAN AV M1366 .L385 1987

Yusef Lateef live at Pep's
MICHIGAN AV M1366 .L383 1993

Yusef Lateef albums

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