Tapioca: New Facts About an Old Food

Name/Title

Tapioca: New Facts About an Old Food

Entry/Object ID

2016.24.3

Scope and Content

Cookbook with recipes focusing on tapioca. The book includes 15 pages of tapioca recipes, background information, pictures, and advertisement. The book specifically detailed recipes and facts concerning the Minute Tapioca brand of foods, part of Postum Company, Inc. Physical Characteristics: 8.5" (H) x 5.5" (W), 15 pages. Staple bound, lithograph. Cream colored front cover with picture of a Tapioca plant and its roots set against a square, red background in the middle. The title is printed above and below the picture, in black and red print. The back cover has a black and white image, depicting a measuring pitcher of tapioca flour by a box of Minute Tapioca. The name "Elsie Gilliland" is written in pencil at the top of the back cover. Publisher information is printed below the image.

Collection

Permanent Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Cookbook

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Recipe

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Instructional Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Cooking, Advertising, Promotional materials

Archive Details

Creator

Postum Co. Educational Department, Minute Tapioca Division

Date(s) of Creation

1928 - 1928

Primary Language

English

Archive Notes

Date(s): 1928 Publisher: Postum Company, Inc. Publication Notes: Postum Company, Inc. 1928 New York, NY Place Published: New York, NY