What's on the Menu? (New York Public Library)

What's on the Menu? (New York Public Library) Help transcribe The New York Public Library's historical menu collection! Feeling hungry? Questions? Comments? Want to stay in touch as the project develops?

With approximately 40,000 menus dating from the 1840s to the present, The New York Public Library’s restaurant menu collection is one of the largest in the world, used by historians, chefs, novelists and everyday food enthusiasts. Trouble is, the menus are very difficult to search for the greatest treasures they contain: specific information about dishes, prices, the organization of meals, and all

the stories these things tell us about the history of food and culture. To solve this, we’re working to improve the collection by transcribing the menus, dish by dish. Doing this will allow us to dramatically expand the ways in which the collection can be researched and accessed, opening the door to new kinds of discoveries. We’ve built a simple tool that makes the transcribing pretty easy to do, but it’s a big job, so we need your help. Contact us at [email protected], follow on Twitter, and like us here on Facebook!

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