collecting community cookbooks and modernizing the recipes
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…
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…
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…
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…
What’s Cooking in Our All-American City? II Junior Jam compiled by Rockingham Junior Woman’s Club, Rockingham, North Carolina 1985
Ocean City Museum Society Cookbook 1982
Country Cookbook Sagebrush Round-up compiled by Country Music Association of WV, Inc 1993
The Hagley Museum: Recipes with a Brandywine Tradition compiled by The Hagley Volunteers Cookbook Committee. Wilmington, Delaware 1983
The Padre Cooks: Recipes from Sea and Shore Carmel-by-the-Sea compiled by Carmel High School Class of 1951. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California 2001.
Mother Trucker’s Cookbook compiled by Texas Motor Transportation Association, Austin, TX 1983