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#Miniature Monday

Pandora's Box by  Peter & Donna Thomas

This is part of a series focusing on a small fraction of the lovely artists books by Peter and Donna Thomas!

Today's item is a scroll on a wooden frame that the makers compare to Pandora's Box-easy to open, but harder to put back! (Don't worry- I got it rolled back up again safely.)

When unrolled, it features a quotation from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, which begins: "I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres." The text is on a backdrop of green and blue linoleum cuts by Donna Thomas.

Peter and Donna Thomas are "book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books." They have made over 100 limited edition books, often with Peter making the paper, and Donna doing the illustrations.

Check out more of Donna and Peter's books at Uiowa here.

--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student

The introduction of new ingredients from the Americas, such as tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers, had a gradual impact on Italian cuisine over time.

Polenta, made from grains like spelt, rye, barley, and millet, was a staple in Italian cuisine since ancient times, often associated with the diet of the poor.

Legumes and nuts, like beans and chestnuts, were commonly used alongside grains to make bread, polenta, or soup.

Maize (corn) eventually replaced other grains as the main ingredient in polenta.

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Detail of wing of Chrysiridia rhipheus or sunset moth

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