Mollie Katzen Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Katzen, Mollie, 1950-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Authors -- California -- Berkeley
label: Topic
content: Chefs -- New York
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content: Cookbooks
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content: Cookery -- 1970-2000
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content: Cooking
label: Topic
content: Food
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content: Illustrations
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content: Local foods -- United States
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content: Vegetarianism
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content: Vegetarianism -- 1960-2000
label: Topic
content: Vegetarians
label: Topic
content: Women illustrators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Mollie Katzen, 2017.
creator: label: Creator
content: Katzen, Mollie, 1950-
setName: label: See more items in
content: Mollie Katzen Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: Materials primarily document the work of chef, cookbook author and illustrator, Mollie Katzen compiled during the writing of her publications The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mollie Katzen, chef, cookbook author and illustrator, was born on October 13, 1950, to Leon and Betty E. Heller Katzen in Rochester, New York.  She studied fine art at Cornell University and the San Francisco Art Institute. Katzen cofounded the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York in 1973. She is probably best known for her vegetarian publications The Moosewood Cookbook (1977) and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest (1982) which she also illustrated. She has written and illustrated twelve cookbooks and three children's cookbooks.


Sources: Ancestry.com


Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollie_Katzen
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.25 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972-2002, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1434
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Artwork
label: Type
content: Cookbooks
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Designs
label: Type
content: Design drawings
label: Type
content: Notes
label: Type
content: Notebooks
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 1: Pesonal Papers, 1980-2002, undated

Series 2: Materials Related to Cookbook Publications, 1972-1982, undated
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Sarah Gediman, intern, 2019; Julia Gibson, intern, 2019; Savannah Hildre, intern, 2019; Lauren Janik, intern, 2019; supervised by Vanessa Broussard-Simmons, supervisory archivist, 2019.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Artwork
label: Genre/Form
content: Cookbooks -- 1970-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Designs
label: Genre/Form
content: Design drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Notes -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Notebooks -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection includes Katzen's notes and notebooks compiled during her writing of The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, including notes on ingredients, preparation, presentation; copies of various editions of The Moosewood Cookbook; a sketchbook; and letters from users of the cookbooks, praising Katzen and asking questions or offering suggestions. Katzen answered the letters but her responses are not included among the materials.  Instead there are sticky notes on some of the letters which have been photocopied and discarded. In addition, there are original, hand-written, hand-illustrated "mechanicals," and original designs for the cookbooks' pages.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
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