Becoming Visible: Recipes in the Making

Abstract

An interdisciplinary project that encompasses digital humanities, collaborative research, and book history, the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) has found itself breaking methodological ground in several respects.Dedicated to a collaborative methodology, a largely female subject area, and the goals of open access, EMROC has many challenges and rewards.The collective offers its experiences and vision as a means of transforming future research endeavors in sustainable and exciting ways through crosscampus exchanges and Citizen Humanities initiatives.EMROC began to render hundreds of early modern manuscript recipe books (1500-1800) accessible and full-text searchable.Our Steering Committee is international and interdisciplinary in its scope, comprised of literary scholars from across the United States (Rebecca Laroche, CU Colorado Springs; Jennifer Munroe, UNC Charlotte; Hillary Nunn, U of Akron; and Amy L. Tigner, UT Arlington) as well as historians from Europe (Lisa Smith U of Essex and Elaine Leong, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).Using the Dromio transcription platform [1] developed by the Folger Shakespeare Library, EMROC has generated transcriptions in upwards of twenty books , with seventeen now complete and to be housed in the Folger's EMMO (Early Modern Manuscripts Online) database, [2] but more importantly, we have facilitated the work of this transcription in an international community and, in so doing, increased general interest in making these rich and complex texts more visible and accessible.

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