Exhibition coming in September: Collecting Culinaria
COMING SOON!
Collecting Culinaria: Cookbooks and Domestic Manuals Mainly from the Linda Miron Distad Collection
Curators: Caroline Lieffers and Merrill Distad
3 September 2024 – 31 March 2025
Back by popular demand, this visually compelling exhibition of books and ephemera relating to the preparation and enjoyment of food over several centuries is a tribute to a generous donor and a remarkable woman. From national and regional cookbooks to manuscript and corporate cookbooks, this exhibition features highlights from the collection of librarian-researcher-editor-chef Linda Miron Distad (1944–2012) who had a special ability to “combine, separate, enhance, reduce, clarify, liaise,” and thereby to make magic. Check out a related digital exhibition: Culinaria: A Taste of Food History on the Prairies. The catalogue for this exhibition may be purchased through University of Alberta Press or Indigo.
PEEL'S DOORS ARE CLOSED and services significantly reduced (April-August 2024)
NOTICE
Peel’s doors are closed and services significantly reduced during the summer months (April–August) to allow the team to focus on backend operations.
We look forward to seeing you in September when full service resumes and we launch an updated version of a very popular exhibition: Collecting Culinaria!
Detailed information is available here.
Peel's hours and services
Peel’s exhibitions, workshops, and drop-in services are suspended to allow the team to focus on back end operations. Limited remote research services continue to be available and there is a very limited capacity to accommodate the most urgent requests from researchers who need to view rare print materials and simply cannot wait until the fall term begins. NOTE: During this summer period, non-circulating materials housed at RCRF or that have been brought in via Interlibrary Loan can only be used in the reading room at U of A Archives.
Tuesdays: Closed
Wednesdays-Fridays 1-4pm: Open for drop-in visits*
Mondays: No research appointments
Tuesdays 1-4pm: Reserved for quiet research, by appointment*
Wednesdays-Fridays 1-4pm: By appointment*