CrazyYoungButOldCatLady

Let's be honest, reading books and buying books are two completely different hobbies.

goofiness is so attractive to me. If you can keep me laughing , you got me forever

this is  the only xmas content i want to see, fuck everything else. Shrimper Santa and his flying albino alligators 

Being weird together in museums is a love language

if she’s your girl what’s she doing in the catacombs unearthing my bones???

every linguist I’ve ever met would be properly horrified by this suggestion.

Good.

I’ve been trying to leave Rome for a few weeks now, but all their roads have this weird design flaw

For some reason, it never occurred to me that Project Gutenberg would have public domain old cookbooks. This is BRILLIANT. There’s a 1953 cranberry recipe pamphlet and a suffrage cookbook from 1915 and a translation of Apicus’s guide to food in Imperial Rome and a whole bunch of other fascinating old cookbooks, many pre-1800. Treasure trove!

I love you for sharing this!!!

For more old cookbooks, Michigan State University has 76 of their historical cookbooks scanned and searchable at Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project.

For even older recipes, check out Gode Cookery.  They list medieval and Renaissance cooking instructions and translate the recipes for you into measurable amounts and all.

Can confirm that Gode Cookery is brilliant.

Don’t forget about Townsend’s on YouTube, 17th and 18th century American cooking channel.

Aw yeah.

I have a cooking/housekeeping book from 1887 that belonged to my great-great aunt. It’s fascinating.

Also the Early Modern Maritime Recipes database has recipes from early settlers on the canadian east coast. It includes food recipes and medicine ones.

Michigan State University also regularly sells historic menu items from our food truck!