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Re: preserving food--anecdotal



We had a piece of wedding cake, I believe from 1902 in the collection at my
last job (Western Jewish History Center), it too had turned itself into a
rock.  It was dark colored and we guessed it might have been spice cake
originally.  We received the collection that included the piece sometime in
the 1970s, and it was still with the collection when I was asked to process
it.  I had some concern about bugs but it seemed completely inert.  Berkeley
also is relatively dry, but I believe it spent several years or decades in
New York at some point.  I would keep a twenty-year-old piece sealed for
another decade or two to be safe.

Julia Bazar
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research

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