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The New York Public Library's Menu Collection

Rebecca Federman is the Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library . She's spearheading the What's on the Menu? project, an initiative in which the general public is helping the library digitally transcribe its more than 40,000 historical menus.

By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Rebecca Federman is the Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library. She's spearheading the What's on the Menu? project, an initiative in which the general public is helping the library digitally transcribe its more than 40,000 historical menus. Researchers can browse the transcribed menus online by restaurant, location, date or dish.

Want to help? Start transcribing for the What's on the Menu project!

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The New York Public Library's Menu Collection

Rebecca Federman is the Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library . She's spearheading the What's on the Menu? project, an initiative in which the general public is helping the library digitally transcribe its more than 40,000 historical menus.

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The New York Public Library's Menu Collection

Rebecca Federman is the Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library . She's spearheading the What's on the Menu? project, an initiative in which the general public is helping the library digitally transcribe its more than 40,000 historical menus.

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