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Ethnic Cooking in Hawaii

Posted on March 4, 2024February 27, 2024 by Rachel Rappaport

Ethnic Cooking in Hawaii complied by PASS (Providing Assistance for Student Success) students, parents and teachers at Castle High School and Radford High School (undated) According to the introduction recipes were shared by students reflecting their language and culture “It can be truly said that no one really knows a culture until one has a…

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Noted Cookery

Posted on February 29, 2024February 27, 2024 by Rachel Rappaport

Noted Cookery: Favorite Recipes from Friends of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra compiled by the Junior Group of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra 1969 The book states that they “gathered, tested, typed, and proofed recipes” and had received over 1400 recipes! The book contains 750 and is a very professional looking hardback. They had a number of…

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Ship to Shore: Virgin Islands Charter Yacht Recipes

Posted on January 16, 2024January 16, 2024 by Rachel Rappaport

Ship to Shore: Virgin Islands Charter Yacht Recipes Virgin Islands 1983 The forward outlines how the Virgin Islands are a “true paradise” with “crystal-blue waters” and extoll the virtues of seeing the islands on yachts. These are the recipes of the chefs on those yachts. No mention of where the profits of the book went…

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Christmas Memories Cookbook

Posted on December 17, 2023November 15, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Christmas Memories Cookbook: 350 Favorite Christmas Recipes from Mystic Seaport Members 1985 Mystic, Connecticut

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Oh Boy, Cookies…

Posted on December 1, 2023November 15, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Oh Boy, Cookies… sponsored by Southwestern Band Boosters (undated)

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The Officers’ Wives Holiday Cookbook

Posted on November 29, 2023October 24, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

The Officer’s Wives Holiday Cookbook undated “a special project of Officers’ Wives Clubs” and “proceeds from its sale supply these clubs with the funds they need to support a wide variety off worthwhile projects”. The book is divided into menus for different holidays from Labor Day to Lincoln’s Birthday to New Year’s Eve. There are…

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The Hagley Museum: Recipes with a Brandywine Tradition

Posted on October 25, 2023November 15, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

The Hagley Museum: Recipes with a Brandywine Tradition compiled by The Hagley Volunteers Cookbook Committee. Wilmington, Delaware 1983

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To Stir with Love: Favorite Recipies from the Families of Concord Presbyterian Church

Posted on September 29, 2023August 29, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

To Stir with Love: Favorite Recipies from the Families of Concord Presbyterian Church 1976

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Tastes of Summers Past

Posted on September 22, 2023August 2, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Tastes of Summers Past recipes collected for the 38th National Square Dance Convention, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1989

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Family Fixins’ 1976

Posted on September 8, 2023August 24, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Family Fixins’ recipes submitted by Family Housing Residents during Fall Quarter 1976 (location unknown)

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Invite Me Again

Posted on August 19, 2023July 1, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Invite Me Again

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Favorite Recipes from Our Best Cooks: Welcome Wagon Club of Fairfield and Easton, Inc

Posted on August 17, 2023June 24, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Favorite Recipes from Our Best Cooks: Welcome Wagon Club of Fairfield and Easton, Inc

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Recipes/1979

Posted on August 14, 2023August 2, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Recipes/1979 Good Things to Eat…from the Exchange Avenue Baptist Church Youth Choir The book opens with a letter from Bill Shingleton talking about how the sales of this book will fund the sixty-member choir’s trip to Florida in 1979. It sounds like it was a well-traveled choir—he says that in the past 20 years, the…

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Generals’ Row Cookbook Offutt Air Force Base

Posted on August 8, 2023August 8, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Generals’ Row Cookbook Offutt Air Force Base compiled by the Ladies of Generals’ Row Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska in association with the Offutt Officers’ Wives’ Club 1979

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Family Fixin’s (1979)

Posted on August 4, 2023July 26, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Family Fixin’s (1979)

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This Is It! Published by the Class of 1981 US Army War College

Posted on July 6, 2023July 5, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

This Is It! Published by the Class of 1981 US Army War College Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania 1981

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