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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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Recipes and Reminiscences of New Orleans

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

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…

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Cooking with the Groundhog

Posted on February 2, 2024January 28, 2024 by Rachel Rappaport

Cooking with the Groundhog compiled by The Adrian Hospital Auxiliary of Punxsutawney, Pa 1958 The book opens with a recipe for cooking groundhog credited to “The Seer” followed by a poem about Punxsutawney and then a short history of how the area got its names and the groundhog which predicts the weather which they call…

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Cooking in the Chesapeake Country

Posted on January 19, 2024January 18, 2024 by Rachel Rappaport

Cooking in the Chesapeake Country. Galena Volunteer Fire Company, Galena, Maryland 1967 This is not my first book from Galena! Or Kent County for that matter. This one was “prepared by the women of the community for The Galena Volunteer Fire Company” and all proceeds went to the Galena Volunteer Fire Company Building Fund. They…

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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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PILCO Holiday Dessert Cookbook 1980

Posted on December 14, 2023January 2, 2024 by Rachel Rappaport

PILCO Holiday Dessert Cookbook 1980

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Quelque Chose pour un Joyeux Noel: Acadian Recipes for Christmas Dinners and Desserts

Posted on December 12, 2023February 27, 2024 by Rachel Rappaport

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

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Christmas is a Warm Cookie

Posted on December 4, 2023November 15, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Christmas is a Warm Cookie presented for your enjoyment by The Children’s Board of Lakewood Hospital, Lakewood, Ohio 1979

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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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School Maize

Posted on November 9, 2023November 24, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

School Maize: A project of the Wilmington Education Association 1983 Wilmington, Ohio

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Recipes from Old Virginia

Posted on November 6, 2023October 23, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Recipes from Old Virginia compiled by the Virginia Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs 1958 (reprinted 1994, at this point the club had renamed Virginia Extension Homemakers Council) The introduction assures us that all 700+ recipes were “tested time and time again under ordinary home kitchen conditions”. “Proof of the pudding was in its tasting”. There…

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Ocean City Museum Society Cookbook

Posted on November 3, 2023November 24, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Ocean City Museum Society Cookbook 1982

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Three Rivers Cookbook I

Posted on October 13, 2023September 28, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Three Rivers Cookbook I “The Good Taste of Pittsburgh” compiled by Child Health Association of Sewickley, PA 1973

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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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The Happy Cooker (1974)

Posted on September 19, 2023November 24, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

The Happy Cooker (1974)

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Hooked on Cooking

Posted on September 12, 2023September 21, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Hooked on Cooking

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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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Pro-Kids Potluck

Posted on September 6, 2023March 29, 2024 by Rachel Rappaport

Pro-Kids Potluck compiled by PRO-Kids, Inc of Charleston, West Virginia

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