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Hi! I am a software developer and I'm in the mood to work on a neat project, and have decided to map and make visualizations showing the spread of recipes/ingredients throughout the past few hundred years in North America using recipes found in old church cookbooks. Basically, I need as much data as possible in a not-lovely format. Where can I find giant piles of OCR'd cookbooks? There are a fair number on Project Gutenberg, but they're generally low quality (which is what I expected), and they will work, but I thought I would see if anyone had any suggestions or resources.
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Feb 1, 2015 16:21
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Hi! I am a software developer and I'm in the mood to work on a neat project, and have decided to map and make visualizations showing the spread of recipes/ingredients throughout the past few hundred years in North America using recipes found in old church cookbooks. Goon moms. Do they have to be church, or can they be quilt guild/other charity things? If you have a P.O. Box or something, I think I could get you a small pile, and I'm sure others could, too.
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Feb 1, 2015 17:08
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detectivemonkey posted:Goon moms. Do they have to be church, or can they be quilt guild/other charity things? If you have a P.O. Box or something, I think I could get you a small pile, and I'm sure others could, too. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to OCR them, so I need for them to already be digitized. That would be a super worthy thing to do eventually but that would require actual funding. Any old cookbook with a date and address would be totally wonderful.
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Feb 1, 2015 17:24
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I know openlibrary.com has old junior league cookbooks, so it might be worth looking into. Good luck, it sounds super interesting!
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Feb 1, 2015 21:16
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I'm mobile right now, so I can't check, but I wouldn't be surprised if archive.org has what you're looking for. They have a generally extensive ebook collection, and old cookbooks seem up their alley.
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Feb 5, 2015 18:42
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Not necessarily church cookbooks, but there's this: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/ quote:The Feeding America project has created an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The digital archive includes page images of 76 cookbooks from the MSU Library's collection as well as searchable full-text transcriptions.
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Feb 5, 2015 19:07
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The Library of Congress has some digitized cookbooks here: http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/communitycookbooks.html. I'm not sure if all of them have been OCRed but it looks like some of them have.
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Feb 7, 2015 07:23
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Those are both very helpful, thank you! I'm going to work on this project at a big open data event thing in a couple weeks.
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Feb 13, 2015 23:59
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