The Medieval Cookbook database was developed entirely by Catalina Macias, as part of her European Masters in Alimentation History at Columbia University.

One of her fellow students, Lina Cuellar Wills, is now using Heurist to build a directory of 19th century South American Guias de Forasteros (Foreigners Guides).

Starting from a simple database structure (Menus containing Recipes containing Ingredients) prepared by the Heurist team, and with a couple of follow-up assistance emails, the entire project took us less than three hours, and was used in a successfully completed thesis.