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[–]jofish22 42 points43 points  (1 child)

Ideally I feel this would be taken on by the Schlesinger Library at Harvard; they’ve taken on significant cookbook collections before (notably Julia and Paul Child’s). I don’t think I know anyone there to ask any more; does anyone else?

[–]midnightauro 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've used this site for years and I've adored all the work put into it but never really thought about who was doing all of that work! I hope it's picked up by someone thoughtful and that we have Lynne's incredible legacy for many more years.

[–]texnessa 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sent this to one of the conservationists at UTSA who is working on Diana Kennedy's Mexican Cookbook collection. Will report back if she has any insight.

[–]YenOlass 9 points10 points  (2 children)

this is a really sad read. A lot of the external links on that site are dead and sites like this are a rare find these days, the old internet used to be full of esoteric things like this. Maybe I'm getting old, but so much content these days are just word press sites full of the same banal drivel copy and pasted from the other 10 billion clone websites.

[–]amiiboh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In the right hands those links could be fixed to point to the Internet Archive version of those sites on the wayback machine, I’m willing to bet a lot of that information is in there. And for the links that are still alive, they could be preserved more proactively and accurately.

[–]amiiboh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Jason Scott and other folks at the Internet Archive - which is not just for archiving the Internet, but lots of other things too - would probably love to know about this.

[–]weewaaweewaa 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Using HTTracker, I downloaded the entire foodtimeline.org site.

Since the site is mostly text, everything turned out to be only 130 MB in size.

Here's a Google drive link to what I downloaded:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hYKCEF-Rm5vgifBhVGo4CeR1vEP1nMbo/view?usp=sharing

Open index.html, and you should be able to browse the site, even if you're offline.

It's not as good as having a new steward for the site, but I think having an offline archive should be useful in case anything happens.

[–]MisoMeso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're a great person. Thank you for saving this.

[–]Fatmiewchef 2 points3 points  (0 children)

are the books digitized?

[–]kaimkre1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've never seen this before, and I am so so excited to read this.

[–]YenOlass 1 point2 points  (1 child)

/u/WAUthethird is this something you'd be interested in archiving?

[–]WAUthethird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh. It would, actually.

[–]thegraduate8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anyone have a contact at the Library of Congress? They have an internet archive that could possibly be interested.

Edited to add that the Library of Congress already had this page archived: https://www.loc.gov/collections/food-and-foodways-web-archive/?fa=subject:history

[–]phoneticau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It needs to be contuined maybe a universty can take it on or at least be kept for the public good, would be tradgic if a cybersquatter gets the domain name