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Title:
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
Collection Home:
Description:
Feeding America is an online collection of the most important and influential 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks. The site also includes 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. Recipes within the cookbooks may be searched by title and ingredient.
Subjects:
General cookery
Regional cookery
Ethnic cookery
Household Management
Church and charity cookbooks
Cooking school cookbooks
19th century cookbooks
Regional cookery
Ethnic cookery
Household Management
Church and charity cookbooks
Cooking school cookbooks
19th century cookbooks
GEM Subjects:
Geographic Coverage:
Time Period:
1700-1799
1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1929
1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1929
Objects Represented:
Format:
image/jpeg
text/html
video
text/html
video
Language:
eng
Audience:
General public
K-12 students
Undergraduate Students
K-12 teachers and administrators
Scholars/Researchers/Graduate Students
Professional chefs
K-12 students
Undergraduate Students
K-12 teachers and administrators
Scholars/Researchers/Graduate Students
Professional chefs
Interaction with Collection:
Search
Exhibit
Browse
Interactive learning objects
Full-text reproductions
limited searching within text
supplementary material
Exhibit
Browse
Interactive learning objects
Full-text reproductions
limited searching within text
supplementary material
Access Rights:
No access restrictions.
Copyright & IP rights:
All books digitized are in the public domain.
Collection Development Policy:
Significant and representative titles from American culinary history were chosen from the MSU Libraries' Cookery Collection.
Size:
76 cookbooks (about 27,000 page images); 100 multidimensional images of museum artifacts; 300+ glossary terms; approx. 50 author biographies; introductory essays.
Frequency of additions:
Irregularly
Alternative Access:
OAI and Worldcat/MARC access will be available in March 2005.
Supplementary Materials:
Essay(s)
Biographical information
video tour
multidimensional images of museum artifacts
glossary
Biographical information
video tour
multidimensional images of museum artifacts
glossary
Hosting Institution:
Contributing Institution:
Michigan State University. Museum.
Associated Collections
Associated Physical Collections:
Title:
Cookery Collection.
Hosting Institution:
Michigan State University. Library. Special Collections Division