collecting community cookbooks and modernizing the recipes
Beary, Beary Good Blueberry Recipes compiled by the Ark-La-Tex Blueberry Growers Association 2002 I love a single subject cookbook! The contributors are largely blueberry farmers but there is also a blueberry pageant winner contributor and a few people whose affiliation is unknown. The farmers are all listed with their farm’s name. Unsurprisingly the recipes tend…
Recipes and Reminiscences of New Orleans complied by the Old Ursuline Convent, Chartres Street New Orleans, Louisiana 1971 (7th printing 1980) This book opens with a history of the convent about how the nuns helped “little female orphans” and the survivors of “Indian massacres” and had special classes for “Negro and Indian girls” to learn…
Quelque Chose pour un Joyeux Noel: Acadian Recipes for Christmas Dinners and Desserts edited by Mercedes Vidrine, Illustrations by J. A. Allen recipe contributions by readers of the Opelousas Daily World 1967