Recipes, classes, old cookbooks and 15 years of restaurant talk
The Kitchen Archive
A food collection kept over 40 years: a handwritten cooking class notebook from 1982, cookbooks old enough to be in the public domain, and the restaurant conversations of the early internet.
Restaurant talk
Eats Archive
The rec.food.restaurants newsgroup, 1991 to 2005. Ask a stranger where to eat in Austin, Boston or Budapest, and read what they said.
25,277 posts in 12,830 conversationsBoston, MA Eats Guide
649 Boston restaurants in 6 live guides, built from rider picks, with the Boston barbecue analysis.
Food reading
Articles about food I saved over the years, from the New York Times, NPR and others, with links to the originals.
8 articlesPortland, ME Eats Guide
541 Portland restaurants, 25+ breweries, 50+ lobster shacks and 77+ food trucks.
My Recipes
Classes
Classes I've taken
Chinese cooking in Lexington, barbecue with Blue Ribbon in Newton, Peruvian and wine tasting in Cambridge, and an oyster tasting at Legal Sea Foods in Harvard Square: the handouts, my notes and the recipes.
5 classesCooking class, 1982
The notebook from a cooking class at RISD in Providence. Each handwritten recipe sits beside a clean recipe card, and the whole notebook turns like a book.
88 recipes, 22 notebook spreadsOld cookbooks
The Cookbook Library
About 85 American cookbooks from 1796 on, to page through as flipbooks, including Esther Levy's 1871 Jewish Cookery Book and The Legal Sea Foods Cookbook.
Flip through themOld-time recipes
28,708 recipes read out of 80 of those cookbooks, 1796 to 1927, by kind of dish and by book, with a search. Each one links to its page in the old book.
Search them