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Bon Vivant. Baking & Pastry (formerly of Dovetail and SATW). I make sweet treats w/ fruits, vegetables, flavor flours. Tweets are my thoughts. IG: thesugarchef.
Mar 9, 2019 4 tweets 1 min read
Deborah Griscom Passmore (1840–1911) was a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Dept of Agriculture who specialized in paintings of fruit. She rose to lead the staff artists and contributed over one~fifth of 7500 paintings in the Pomological Watercolor Collection... ...At the time, major fruit-producing regions in the United States were beginning to emerge, as farmers worked with the USDA to establish orchards for expanding markets. Photography was not yet in widespread use, so the government relied...