“Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero This quotation is often mistranslated as “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” […]
Food for Thought
Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Clare Levine On Vegetarianism and the American Counter-Culture!
Enjoy this post by Clare Levine, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. Interested in applying? Find out about the 2024-2025 program here. The second […]
Add Your Edible Book to the Read It & Eat It Shelf!
Dante, exiled from his beloved Florence, had but one wish regarding his literary legacy: to one day inspire the baking talents of students at The Johns Hopkins University. His sacred […]
JHU Museums Year in Review: Homewood’s Orchard Yields Delicious Results
We’re now deep into baking season, and while 2023’s apple harvest was a mixed bag nationally, Homewood Museum’s orchard of mostly apple (and a few pear) trees over-performed. As the […]
Charm City Treats
The original idea of this post was to rank these types of food based on which ones were most integral to the Baltimore experience. When we surveyed the librarians, we […]