Want to make historic recipes? Or how about reading handwriting, converting measurements, recreating historic cooking implements, food photography, or writing and blogging?

300+ years of handwritten cookbooks with thousands of recipes from Chef Louis Szathmary’s culinary collection from Special Collections & University Archives are now online in DIY History, the newest transcription project from the University of Iowa Libraries. Helpful people around the world are trying to puzzle out what the handwriting says. But is that where it ends? Unlike letters, diaries, or even menus, recipes are not done even what you can read what it says. They are instructions just calling out to be tested to bring a slice of history back to life one piece of hardtack at a time.

Sound interesting? Come to the first meeting and have a voice in determining what the group should be.

If you can’t make the meeting but want to be in the loop, e-mail colleen-theisen @ uiowa dot edu to be added to the e-mail list.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

6:30-8PM

PS-Z, 120 N. Dubuque St.

(3 blocks north of PS1, on the lower level of the Wesley Center)