Hello all! This week for us is the foundation building week where we organize and set up everything before diving in. Currently we are using the former project websites as a guide for setting up the layout of ours. (Most of those pages will be private until we at least have a description up of what will be on those pages.)

Up by tomorrow Friday will be the page with our individual summaries about ourselves and our personal interest in this project. We have contacted both Professor Locklear and Pam Allison about the project. While on a research break this semester, Professor Locklear pointed us to some additional cookbooks and resources that might help us connect all of these threads together. Pam Allison has agreed to a meeting where we can ask her questions pertaining to her personal thoughts on this project and to the reasons she began collecting cookbooks in the first place.

I (Dakota) have started moving the information from the catalogue of cookbooks into Zotero so that we can begin to manipulate the data, and both Kinsey and I have an appointment at Special Collections tomorrow to get our hands on the books and pick the brains of our wonderful archivists.