Negative Space: estimating cookbook dates
- Cookbook publication year estimates I have made
- When I acquire a cookbook without a publication or copyright year, I use the advertisements and contributors to make a stab at the likely year of publication. This page provides those guesses in case it helps you date your own books.
- Using search engines to guess cookbook years
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Many cookbooks, especially community cookbooks and often advertising pamphlets, leave off the year. Often, however, there are solid clues in the text that narrow down when the book was published, through simple online searches.
