[Sca-cooks] Historic Cookbook Project--OOP

[Sharon Gordon]

For people interested in later historical cookbooks 1798-1922.

Anyone know of cookbooks in this time period that they don't have?

http://digital.lib.msu.edu/cookbooks/about.cfm?id=all

Feeding America:
The Historic American Cookbook Project
The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum are partnering to
create an online collection of the most important and influential 19th and
early 20th century American cookbooks.

  The site will also include a glossary of cookery terms, essays by culinary
historian Jan Longone, biographies of the cookbook authors, and
multidimensional images of antique cooking implements from the collections
of the MSU Museum. Selections from these supplementary materials are
available now.

The digital archive currently includes page images of 57 cookbooks from the
Special Collections Division of the MSU Library. The text-search function
currently indexes 13 books. When the project is completed in September 2003,
the site will include page images, full-text transcriptions, and indexed
text searching for 75 cookbooks published between 1798 and 1922.

The full-text search capability of the site will enable students and
scholars to locate passages on topics as diverse as the uses of nutmeg,
Civil War era apple pie recipes, descriptions of kitchen appliances, and
1890s nutritional advice. The 3D images will help students visualize the
technology of 19th century cooking by linking descriptions of unfamiliar
cooking processes to images of the utensils and implements used to carry
them out.

The Feeding America online collection will highlight an important part of
America's cultural heritage for teachers and students at the primary,
secondary, and college levels; researchers investigating American social
history, professional chefs, and lifelong learners of all ages. The two-year
project will be completed in September 2003.

  Feeding America is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services,
an independent federal agency that supports the nation's museums and
libraries.