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wino
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Post subject: The Sifter - A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks  Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:12 pm |
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A coincidental friendship with Julia Child led to this incredible effort and product. From Atlas Obscura: "The Sifter is a catalogue of more than a thousand years of European and U.S. cookbooks.
Now, the public can enjoy the fruits of Wheaton’s 50 years of labor. In July 2020, Wheaton and a team of scholars, including two of her children, Joe Wheaton and Catherine Wheaton Saines, launched The Sifter. Part Wikipedia-style crowd-sourced database and part meticulous bibliography, The Sifter is a catalogue of more than a thousand years of European and U.S. cookbooks, from the medieval Latin De Re Culinaria, published in 800, to The Romance of Candy, a 1938 treatise on British sweets.
The Sifter isn’t a collection of recipes, or a repository of entire texts. Instead, it’s a multilingual database, currently 130,000-items strong, of the ingredients, techniques, authors, and section titles included in more than 5,000 European and U.S. cookbooks. It provides a bird’s-eye view of long-term trends in European and American cuisines, from shifting trade routes and dining habits to culinary fads.
You can explore The Sifter’s search functions at home. Try tracing the history of your favorite dish, the evolution of cinnamon use in France or Germany, or the popularity of very good wig (or very good hair-care) recipes. The Sifter is also a work in progress, and it’s relying on the community to expand what Wheaton started. You can register for an account to contribute translation expertise or input cookbook information, from any pre-1940 cookbooks you might have on hand, or from an internet archive."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-find-historic-cookbooks?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a4a67c7454-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_08_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-a4a67c7454-67654157&mc_cid=a4a67c7454&mc_eid=fce8a24641
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Post subject: Re: The Sifter - A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:41 am |
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