Kirschner Collection

Nordic cookbooks was the subject of this installment of Read This Book! from the University of Minnesota Libraries, hosted by Lisa Von Drasek and featuring Megan Kocher.

Last year, I worked with the Strategic Digitization Program at the University Libraries to scan all of our materials that were published prior to...

Books about cooking was the subject of this special holiday issue of Read This Book!: Books to Give 2016, Volume 4. Megan Kocher, curator of the Doris S. Kirschner Cookbook Collection recommended two books to give as gifts: "Come, You Taste: Recipes from the Iron Range" by B.J. Carpenter, and "The Vegetable Butcher" by Cara Mangini.

This is our last farmers market post of the season and we've got two recipes that make use of late fall brassicas -- broccoli...

It's time for the farmers market again and full-on apple season has arrived! Also, we've got a recipe for those tender little new potatoes. Enjoy!

This week I've picked out two recipes that celebrate the height of summer (tomatoes) and the beginning signs of fall (apples). And since today...

It's August and we have nearly reached peak vegetable time at the farmers markets! Sweet corn just started showing up a couple weeks ago so I dug up a new, interesting way to use it. I'm also featuring a recipe from a book that is brand new to our collection — V is for Vegetable.

The Libraries are back at the farmers market this week and we've got two new recipes for you featuring two of my favorite vegetables — peas and beets! Yum!

It's summer on campus which means that the Minnesota Farmers Market is back. The University of Minnesota Libraries will be hosting pop-up libraries at the...

Did you make a New Year's resolution to diet? If so, you might want to get some perspective by looking at the Diets Through...

Are you trying to figure out what to do with your bountiful summer harvest? Discover options for preserving everything from apricots to asparagus to meats.

It's almost July. We are in the thick of Summer and the farmer's markets are finally bursting with produce. To help inspire you as...

It has been a busy Spring for the Kirschner Collection! At the beginning of May, we co-hosted a talk by one of my all-time favorite...

Our friends at the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine are hosting a Pre-Modern Recipe Workshop, that I thought might be of interest...

In this episode of "Read This Book!," Megan Kocher, curator of the Doris Kirschner Cookbook Collection at the University of Minnesota, discusses books with holiday cookie recipes.