Baker Mike Caforio making bread and desserts | Baker Mike Caforio making bread and desserts | Still Image | Fieldwork Italian Americans Desserts Cake Occupational groups Bakery Bread Specialty stores Food preparation Food industry and trade Food Bakers and bakeries Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Baker Mike Caforio making bread and desserts
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- 1987-08-25
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- Twelve color slides. Caforio learned cooking from his Sicilian mother. He came to Florida from New York c. 1975. For more information, see the informant sheet in S 1704, box 1, folder 1. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
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Baker Paul McKeon with his cakes | Baker Paul McKeon with his cakes | Still Image | Bakers and bakeries Fieldwork Cookware Desserts Decorative arts Cake Food preparation Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Baker Paul McKeon with his cakes
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- 1987-04
- Description
- Two color slides. Originally from Long Island, New York, McKeon moved to Florida in 1981. He learned baking while working in a donut shop, and though observation of bakers The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
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Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival | Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival | Still Image | Folklore revival festivals Special events Folk festivals Festivals Cake Games Cakewalk (Dance) Dance Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cake walk at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival
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- 1981-01-19
- Description
- Five color slides. Images of a cakewalk organized by folklorists Loomis and McNeill. Folklorist Doris Dyen won the walk -- pictured in slide S81-107.
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Cakemaker Ana Paz | Cakemaker Ana Paz | Still Image | Fieldwork Cake Desserts Latinos Puerto Ricans Decorative arts Church decoration and ornament Food preparation Food industry and trade Food Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cakemaker Ana Paz
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- 1985-09
- Description
- Twelve color slides. Paz in the kitchen making and decorating cakes. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Cakes by Jeanine Machio | Cakes by Jeanine Machio | Still Image | Cooks Fieldwork Desserts Cake Decorative arts Material culture Food Calendar rites Food preparation Children | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cakes by Jeanine Machio
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- Fourteen color prints. Images of various cakes over the years by Machio. A housewife, Machio cooked for family and friends. Her family was from Kentucky. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Fragos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
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Cooks from the Valdes-Fauli Party Service at work | Cooks from the Valdes-Fauli Party Service at work | Still Image | Fieldwork Latinos Cuban Americans Cooking and dining Desserts Cake Food industry and trade Food preparation Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cooks from the Valdes-Fauli Party Service at work
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- 1985-07-30
- Description
- Six color slides. Images of Rodrigues and Grass cooking. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Images of the Library Folklife Program in Tallahassee | Images of the Library Folklife Program in Tallahassee | Still Image | Cooks Workshops (Adult education) African Americans Libraries Cake Cooking and dining Desserts Demonstrations Food preparation Food Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of the Library Folklife Program in Tallahassee
- Date
- 1983-04-30
- Description
- One proof sheet with 36 black and white images (plus negatives). Images of folklorist Belland and cook Hunter giving a public program on cooking at the Leon County Public Library in Tallahassee.
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Jewel Fountain with dishes she cooked | Jewel Fountain with dishes she cooked | Still Image | Food Porches Desserts Food preparation Cake Fishes Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Mary Luisa Grass making sponge cake | Mary Luisa Grass making sponge cake | Still Image | Fieldwork Cake Food preparation Cooking and dining Desserts Food Food industry and trade Ovens Cuban Americans Latinos Bakers and bakeries Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Mary Luisa Grass making sponge cake
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- 1985-07-31
- Description
- Eight color slides. Grass worked for Valdes Family Catering. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Palestinian Wedding Traditions | Palestinian Wedding Traditions | Moving Image | Video recording Wedding ceremonies Weddings Marriage service Marriage celebrants Marriage rites Rites and ceremonies Rites of passage Community culture Community rites Arab Americans Ethnicity, Arabic Palestinian Americans Catholics Church buildings Church services Churches Dance Cake | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Palestinian Wedding Traditions
- Date
- 1985-11-07
- Description
- One video recording. (VHS; 1:50:00) A video of a wedding between Musa Kamel and Georgina Marie on 7 November 1985 at the National Shrine of St. George Melkite-Greek Catholic Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Includes the ceremony, the reception, and ends with the married couple walking into their hotel room.
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