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Fremdes in Kochbüchern (Otherness in Cookery Books)

Two people are each sitting in front of a laptop and are reading through notes on a notepad together.

(Video only available in German)

Fremdes in Kochbüchern” (“Otherness in Cookery Books”): Christoph Bläsi (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) and Edith Blaschitz (Danube University Krems) are researching the processes involved when “foreign” foods are assimilated into German-language cookery books. For this, the DNB is providing a corpus of approx. 6,000 authentic digital cookery books on its own infrastructure for automatic analysis.

Last changes: 20.07.2021

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