Rebecca Federman, who is the librarian of the some tens of thousands strong historical menu, recipe, and culinary photography archive of the NYPL, is the author of one of my favorite lil’ blogs that could on these here internets. It’s called Cooked Books, and its worth scanning every few weeks for something you may have never known you wanted from the library’s troves, like pictures of Brooklyn kitchens in the 1960s, the original menu for Florent, experts choices for “Desert Island Cookbooks,” and little gems like this shot above, from a collection of Japanese albumen photographs from the late 19th century.
It’s worth a look and a half.
