Bicentennial Heritage Recipes compiled by Beta Sigma Phi International 1976 (Special Limited Edition)
This is a pretty garnish cookbook! Most community cookbooks don’t seem to have color at all but this one has a few technicolor photos and a vivid cover. It seems like the proceeds from the book went to benefit Beta Sigma Phi International (a non-academic sorority with 200,000 members in chapters around the world founded in Abilene, Kansas, in 1931 by Walter W. Ross III) which in turn supported a lot of charities. The organization seems to still be in existence.
There are some brief American histories scattered throughout the book starting with one that says this book is the result of over a hundred years of regional cooking. Interesting wording for the bicentennial. It also states that Beta Sigma Phi puts out a cookbook every year.
There are many recipes in the book with some with notes about the age of the recipe (Carol Robinson, Xi Alpha Phi X1664, Boulder, Colorado’s Schram Torte purports to be over 100 years old) and a few food history tidbits.
The contributors are named as are their sororities and locations.
