!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! y'all!!!! exciting old cookbook news!!!!!!!

the university of san antonio has digitized their collection of early mexican and mexican-american cookbooks and put them up for people to freely access!!! going back to handwritten recipe books from 1789!!!!!

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ is an article about it, digital.utsa.edu/digital/colle is a direct link to the oldest manuscript, same as pictured below!

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