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Recipe Share | Thanks for Sharing Recipe Swap

Each week, AADL staff members share recipes in a specific category – from “Unusual Veggies” to “Favorite Cookies” - whether tried and true or tried and failed.

The recipes that are discussed in this episode are attached to this event page.

Please join the conversation in the comments section! What are your favorite recipes from this week’s category?

Biblio Files: Episode 95 | Readalikes on AADL.TV

Each week, a few AADL staff members present a book of their choice from a specific book topic such as favorite classic, book about nature, fiction under 200 pages, beloved children's book, etc. The topics span a multitude of genres. This week, the topic is readalikes: "if you liked this book, give this one a try."

Join the conversation in the comments section and let us know what book you would have picked for this week's Biblio Files!

Culinary Historians | Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine

In her book Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine, Kelley Fanto Deetz draws upon archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. She reveals how these men and women were literally "bound to the fire" as they lived and worked in the sweltering and often fetid conditions of plantation house kitchens.

Biblio Files: Episode 94 | Books with Sentences for Titles on AADL.TV

Each week, a few AADL staff members present a book of their choice from a specific book topic such as favorite classic, book about nature, fiction under 200 pages, beloved children's book, etc. The topics span a multitude of genres.

Join the conversation in the comments section and let us know what book you would have picked for this week's Biblio Files.

Recipe Share | Midwest Traditions on AADL.TV

Each week, AADL staff members share recipes in a specific category – from “Unusual Veggies” to “Favorite Cookies” - whether tried and true or tried and failed.

The recipes that are discussed in this episode are attached to this event page.

Please join the conversation in the comments section! What are your favorite recipes from this week’s category?

Contemporary Black American Ceramic Artists with donald a clark and Chotsani Elaine Dean

With the goal of giving artists long-overdue recognition, donald a clark and Chotsani Elaine Dean will take us through their experience of creating their book Contemporary Black American Ceramic Artists. This work includes compelling interviews with 38 of today's Black ceramists revealing a diversity of studio practices and ways of working with clay.

This event is in partnership with the International Museum of Dinnerware Design.