My mother, Helen Y. Lind, was the lead author on a slim 100-page volume, “Ways to use vegetables in Hawaii,” published in February 1946 as the University of Hawaii’s Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 97.
The softbound book featured nutritional information, along with hints on selecting, storing, and preparing a variety of vegetables, as well as recipes ranging from asparagus to watercress.
A digital edition of the original 1946 book is now available for free in pdf format as part of the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources celebration of the 100th years of its Cooperative Extension program.
If you’re into vegetables, it’s quite an interesting resource.
My mother’s co-authors were Mary Bartow, then a UH Home Economics instructor, and Carey D. Miller, professor of foods and nutrition, and longtime chair of the Home Economics Department. My mother taught in home economics from her graduation from UH in 1935, until she resigned in 1942.
I have a copy of the original book autographed by all three authors, and donated a second autographed copy to the UH Hamilton Library, which is preserving a collection of Carey D. Miller’s personal and professional papers.
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Thanks for sharing this resource. I got hungry just scrolling through the recipes. Cream of Luau soup! (p.86)
We posted it on Twitter as part of the throwback Thursday and in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Extension Service. The works of Carey Miller, your mother and other early nutrition faculty and staff provided ground breaking information on tropical fruits and vegetables, translating research into useful information homemakers could use. There are lots of wonderful (and free) publications available for download on the CTAHR web page.
UHM Library also has LOTs of CTAHR publications freely available in our Scholarspace repository: http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/1877