Historic American Cookbook Recipes Data — recipes • dataculture

Information about 48,032 recipes from 74 American cookbooks, 1803–1922, including ingredients and ethnic and geographic origins.

Usage

recipes

Format

`recipes`

A data frame with 48032 rows and 6 columns:

book_id: book identifier (filename in Feeding America data)
date: year of publication
ethnicgroup: ethnic category (may be NA)
recipe_class: type of recipe
region: geographic region of origin
ingredients: list of recipe ingredients

Source

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.891264

Details

Slightly reprocessed from the accompanying data to Folgert Karsdorp et al., Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python (Princeton University Press, 2021), chap. 1. Karsdorp et al. prepared a CSV file containing preprocessed recipe data derived from XML-encoded cookbooks in Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Dataset (East Lansing: Michigan State University Libraries Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections), 2003, https://lib.msu.edu/feedingamericadata. That CSV file is represented as a tbl_df object here.

Recipe data are derived from editorial markup: the Feeding America editors marked up recipe ingredients and assigned recipes to ethnic, meal-stage, and regional categories. Those categories are recorded unmodified here.