Food Friday: Idiot Salad

The Beta Sigma Phi's have several different types of cookbooks. This one, The Beta Sigma Phi International Cookbook. Salads including Appetizers includes 2000 recipes.The Beta Sigma Phi website explains about their history and about their founding by Walter W. Ross, "In 1931, during the Great Depression, there was a need for an organization...

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Food Friday: What's Cookin'? Cheese and Fish Salad

Today's recipe comes from a California cookbook that really isn't a community cookbook but it does contain great information about the women whose recipes are spotlighted.What's Cookin' by Ruth Gordon is "a collection of Menus (sic) and recipes that have appeared in the Santa Ynez Valley News, Solvang, California. All these recipes are original or...

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Join Me for a Webinar This Thursday

You are invited to attend our FREE online UGA Virtual Chapter Meeting Speaker – Gena Philibert-Ortega Topic – The Secret Lives of Women: Research Female Ancestors Using the Sources They Left Behind Thursday, October 18, 2012, 7:00 pm MDT @ virtual.ugagenealogy.org Women ancestors can be difficult to trace--but not impossible....

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Food Friday: Out of Vermont Kitchens

One of the great benefits of traveling is picking up community cookbooks to add to my collection. On a trip to Illinois I picked up the very large Out of Vermont Kitchens. Compiled by Trinity Mission of Trinity Church, Rutland, Vermont and the Women's Service League of St. Paul's Church Burlington, Vermont. 1939.This cookbook is 400 pages...

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