via U.S. National Archives on Facebook: It’s “What’s Cooking Wednesday” and we want to know if you are basting, brining, or deep fat frying your turkey tomorrow! What’s the best way to make a turkey taste delicious?
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It’s “What’s Cooking Wednesday” and we want to know if you are basting, brining, or deep fat frying your turkey tomorrow! What’s the best way to make a turkey taste delicious?

What’s Cooking Wednesday: What’s That Smell? Smells are everywhere. Realtors bake cookies and make coffee to help sell houses. Proud owners of new cars draw in deep breaths of “new car smell.” But did you ever smell an exhibit in a museum? Visitors to “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” might notice something different about this exhibit. Or at least, their noses might notice. Go and smell it for yourself! The exhibit closes on January 3, 2011, and the smell will be only an olfactory memory. Have a favorite food smell of your own?  Answer below - but be sure to hop over to the Prologue Blog with your answer for a chance to win a copy of Eating with Uncle Sam from the Foundation for the National Archives! What’s your favorite food smell?
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What’s Cooking Wednesday: What’s That Smell?

Smells are everywhere. Realtors bake cookies and make coffee to help sell houses. Proud owners of new cars draw in deep breaths of “new car smell.” But did you ever smell an exhibit in a museum?

Visitors to “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” might notice something different about this exhibit. Or at least, their noses might notice. Go and smell it for yourself! The exhibit closes on January 3, 2011, and the smell will be only an olfactory memory.

Have a favorite food smell of your own?  Answer below - but be sure to hop over to the Prologue Blog with your answer for a chance to win a copy of Eating with Uncle Sam from the Foundation for the National Archives!

What’s your favorite food smell?

USNatArchivesExhibits: Wednesday Lunch BreakMen and women employees on the “swing shift” of North American’s Inglewood, Calif., aircraft plant enjoy their lunch periods., ca. 10/1942Item from Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962
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Wednesday Lunch Break
Men and women employees on the “swing shift” of North American’s Inglewood, Calif., aircraft plant enjoy their lunch periods., ca. 10/1942
Item from Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962

ourpresidents: What’s Cooking Wednesday: FLOTUS Fruit Salad Since today is Nancy Reagan’s birthday, here’s her recipe for Fruit Salad Dressing, which appears in the new cookbook Eating with Uncle Sam. For more food-related features on how America eats, we recommend the What’s Cooking Uncle Sam Tumblr. Now, go get your fruit on. -via the U.S. National Archives on Facebook
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What’s Cooking Wednesday: FLOTUS Fruit Salad

Since today is Nancy Reagan’s birthday, here’s her recipe for Fruit Salad Dressing, which appears in the new cookbook Eating with Uncle Sam.

For more food-related features on how America eats, we recommend the What’s Cooking Uncle Sam Tumblr.

Now, go get your fruit on.

-via the U.S. National Archives on Facebook