Food Friday: Potato Chip Dip

The recipe for this week's Food Friday is not too remarkable but the book it comes from is.  This recipe is from a cookbook that is a combination family and company book. Notice that the recipe not only includes the author's signature but also her residence.The recipe is found in the Wurlitzer Centennial Cook Book 1856-1956: A Book of Recipes...

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Cookbook Bookstores

I'm always on the lookout for resources for my writing and research. Used bookstores are one of the places that I search to find topics that I think might be interesting to write about. When writing about food, used bookstores are the best for helping me find books that document food through history. But even better than a used bookstore is a used cookbook bookstore.Last week I went to The Cookbook Store in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego. I was looking for community cookbooks and was not disappointed in the selection offered at this store....

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Food Friday: Catsup

Today's recipe is from The Junior League of Salt Lake City's Heritage Cookbook (1976). Local cookbooks, in many cases, are not just places to find names and advertisements. They can also provide some history of a community. The following recipe for catsup provides a short history about the recipe and the name of a pioneer butcher from the ar...

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