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Cooking Guide for Japanese Homemakers

What is Served in an American Family: Cooking Guide for Japanese Homemakers, 1948

Keiko Matsumoto, known for her Japanese translation of Little Women, wrote this book as a primer for Japanese women on American cooking and home management. The book included basic everyday recipes for a family of four and home management instructions, such as a daily schedule for cleaning, rules for table manners, and sample conversations between a maid or cook and their employer.

 

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Each year, the staff of Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Maryland creates exhibits that showcase materials from the University's collections. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the official naming of the Gordon W. Prange Collection, this year's featured exhibit is Crossing the Divide: An American Dream Made in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952.  The corresponding physical exhibit of Crossing the Divide will be on display in the Maryland Room Gallery in Hornbake Library North, University of Maryland, through July 2019.

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The Gordon W. Prange Collection is the most comprehensive archive in the world of Japanese print publications issued during the early years of the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945-1949.  It is located in Hornbake Library North on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus.

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