ANN ARBOR, Michigan — Janice Bluestein Longone, who is credited with collecting thousands of items chronicling the culinary history of the United States, including cookbooks, menus, advertisements, and diaries, has died at age 89.
Longone died Wednesday, according to Nie Family Funeral Home in Ann Arbor. The cause and location of death weren’t announced.
Longone grew up in a secular Jewish home in Boston, and developed an interest in cooking while in graduate school at Cornell University in the 1950s, according to a Tablet Magazine profile on her in 2013.
Longone’s collection formed the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where her husband, Daniel T. Longone, was a chemistry professor.
Longone said that she believed the collection showed how American agriculture and culinary practices defined regional customs and…
