Good Food
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 • • 1 min readRebecca 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!
Music: "Confessions D'un Rap Addict" by Ben Mazué
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The full episode
5 of 7Cookbook Ghostwriters; Classic Menus; Linguistics of Food- 0:00Market Report
- 6:36All about Roasting Vegetables
- 14:33Classic Cookbooks
- 21:49The Secret Life of a Cookbook Ghostwriter
- 31:28The New York Public Library's Menu CollectionYou’re reading this
- 39:36Soda, Pop or Coke? The Linguistics of Food
- 50:30Slurping Dumplings through a Boba Straw