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Leipzig: Wednesday, 30.04.2025

The reading rooms in the main building of the German National Library in Leipzig will close at 14:00 due to an event. The museum reading room, the music reading room and the service area are open until 18.00. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

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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