by kitchensisters | Jan 29, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The people trying to save scents from extinction “The smells of ordinary life, from traditional pubs to old books, are part of our culture and heritage – and many of them are in danger of being lost.” -BBC Future,...
by kitchensisters | Jan 27, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Jason Polan, 1982-2020. “Jason Polan, an incessant sketcher whose eclectic drawings and art projects — one was called “The Every Piece of Art in the Museum of Modern Art Book” — made him one of the quirkiest and most prolific denizens of...
by kitchensisters | Jan 24, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The Potato Museum, “the first museum about a vegetable.” “Tom Hughes and his wife, Meredith Sayles Hughes, are the couple behind the world’s first Potato Museum, the Food Museum Online, and the Food Heritage Center. The...
by kitchensisters | Jan 23, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay The Pre-Cinema Optical Devices Collection at Princeton. Pictured: a Polyorama Panoptique.
by kitchensisters | Jan 22, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe by Kathy Peiss