[Sca-cooks] Cookbook Collection Going to Penn

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius1 at verizon.net
Wed Aug 20 10:09:58 PDT 2008


On Aug 20, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> "Blank, who taught classes for Penn for 16 years through the College  
> of General Studies, says he chose to donate his collection to the  
> University rather than a culinary school because he wants it to be  
> appreciated. “Unfortunately,” he says, “culinary schools are  
> besieged by students who only know what they’ve seen on TV. It used  
> to be new things would become part of the cuisine. Now it’s total  
> ephemera, here today and gone tomorrow.”"


Didn't Esther Aresty donate a large collection of cookbooks to U Penn?

Adamantius


"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,  
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
			-- Rabbi Israel Salanter




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