DIY history digitizes ethnomedical recipe books

DIY History crowdsources the transcription of 17th century cookbooks
By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk

Culture

“We are what we eat,” the old say­ing goes. If so, there’s no bet­ter way to digest cul­ture than to comb through painstak­ing­ly hand­writ­ten cook­books. Now, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Libraries has made the task expo­nen­tial­ly eas­i…

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