[Sca-cooks] statistical studies

[Elaine Koogler]

Ooooo...that sounds like a wonderful idea.  Would you consider sharing it?
I have access to MS Access and Oracle 8i.  And I think MS SQL Server may be
on this machine as well.

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "El Hermoso Dormido" <ElHermosoDormido at dogphilosophy.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] statistical studies


> On Thursday 09 May 2002 11:24 am, jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
> > So, here's a suggestion: what about people taking on statistical studies
> > of particular texts and series of text in terms of how many recipes for
> > what foods, what raw ingredients, what spices, what techniques were used
> > in the recipes in that text?
>
> I've been thinking about this.  Some of the online references are
formatted in
> such a way that it wouldn't be too difficult for me to parse them into
> individual recipes and import them into the database server I've got here.
> The online translation of Libre del Coch, for example, would be a snap to
> parse into "recipe title" and "recipe" for importation.
>
> (I'd eventually like to do this with enough references to be able to do
things
> like have the computer sift through the recipes and tell me, for example,
> "in which area and period would one most likely encounter dishes combining
> lamb and nutmeg" or "which meats most commonly appear in pottages around
> France during the 1300's" or whatnot...  Thank God for "Perl Compatible
> Regular Expressions"...)
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