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Special Collections scans its 10,000 item

Tejano Tiger: Jose del los Santos Food and Philosophy A Mexican Dream and Other o bells and whistles went off, but on
Benavides and the Texas-Mexico by Spencer K. Wertz Compositions March 1, 2017, special collections
Borderlands, 1823-1891 by Barbara González Cigarroa Nreached a major milestone adding it’s
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by Jerry Thompson Is there such a thing as a pornography 10,000 item to the university’s online digital
of food? What is the difference A rare collection of interwoven essays repository. The item is the Volume 1, No. 2 issue
Thompson convincingly positions between professional and regional chronicling the fascinating history of The Skiff (TCU’s student newspaper), dated
Jose de los Santos Benavides as one cuisine? What magical symbolism of the Cigarroa family and their September 26, 1902.
of South Texas’s most important do we partake in at a modern-day influence on the Texas-Mexico border
social, political, and military figures dinner party? These topics and more landscape. “Many items have been digitized in the last year,
of the nineteenth century. In addition are explored in this smorgasbord of but we hoped our 10,000 th item would be one
to providing an exhaustive record of essays. In presenting richly detailed vignettes with a unique story to tell,” says Mary Saffell,
the Civil War military career of Santos with keen observation and grace, senior archivist.
Benavides, Thompson’s book also These essays on food and philosophy Cigarroa offers captivating and
recounts the full life of a man whose were written over several decades. original insights not only into her This issue of The Skiff exposed discourses about
unusually steadfast commitment to Not only philosophers and historians family’s remarkable story, but also the activities of the various literary societies,
binational harmony and prosperity but individuals who have an ongoing into the beauty of the extraordinary lots of rah-rah for the football team as well as
deserves to be more widely interest in food should relish them. traits and enduring spirit of the people what appears to have been an early version of the
remembered. of our Texas borderlands. classifieds, with notes about who visited whom,
who was preaching on Sunday and personal
Winning Books Mean commentary about whatever someone felt like
saying. The priceless ads were for men’s clothing,
Bragging Rights for doctors and dentists, shaving parlors, local shops
and mercantiles.

TCU Press The editors Colby D. Hall, Olive Leaman and
Edward S. McKinney gave the outside world a
Two TCU Press books received awards in 2016: panoramic view of college life, incorporated an
interesting motto “Rowing: Not Drifting” and
• James Haggard: New and Selected Poems received sold annual subscriptions for 50-cents.
the Philosophical Society of Texas’s Award of Merit
for Poetry. Digital images of the The Skiff collection
• Shots of Knowledge: The Science of Whiskey was a from 1902 through 1911, are currently
finalist in the International Association of Culinary available online at https://repository.tcu.edu/
Professionals’ annual awards. It was also shortlisted handle/116099117/12511. Work is ongoing to
for Gourmand International’s Hall of Fame. add individual issues of The Skiff through 2005 to
TCUs digital repository.

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