Food Friday: What People Eat in July in Los Angeles, circa 1894

How We Cook in Los Angeles: A Practical Cook Book Containing Six Hundred or More Recipes Selected and Tested by Over Two Hundred Well Known Hostesses Including a French, German and Spanish Department With Menus, Suggestions for Artistic Table Decorations, and Souvenirs. Ladies Social Circle, Simpson M. E. Church. (Available on Internet Archive )Now...

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Food Friday: Campground Cookbook Genealogy

While the cookbook highlighted today is not a traditional community cookbook, it is one where people were asked to send in recipes. Favorite Recipes from America's Campgrounds (1992) is published by the publishers of the Woodall's Campground Directory. In this cookbook, owners of campgrounds from all over the United States were asked to contribute...

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