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Community cookbooks


  • Here are entered works on cookbooks that contain recipes submitted by community organizations, often church or civic groups, frequently including a history of the organization and the region, personal recollections or local culinary traditions. Individual community cookbooks are entered under the specific heading or headings for the type of recipes included, e.g., [Casserole cooking; Cooking, American--New England style.]
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    • Charitable cookbooks
    • Charity cookbooks
    • Church cookbooks (Community cookbooks)
    • Fund raising cookbooks
    • Fundraising cookbooks
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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: The Collection, classic community cookbooks, 1980.
    • found: America's best-loved community recipes, c1994.
    • found: Publishing matters:v. V, Spring, 1993; v. III, Fall, 1992 (community cookbooks; fund raising cookbooks)
    • found: Bailey, E.J. "Eateth not the bread of idleness" : church cookbooks and Victorian American domesticity, 2010:p. iv ("This study examines late Victorian Protestant church community cookbooks as moral and cultural guides written by women for women ... It then examines church community cookbooks as uniquely viable and valuable historical and autobiographical sources through which to better understand Christian domestic practice in Victorian America")
    • found: The handbook of food and anthropology, 2016(contents include: Church cookbooks : changing foodways on the American prairie / Rubie Watson)
    • found: Wikipedia, Dec. 28, 2017:Cookbooks (Types of cookbooks: Community cookbooks (also known as compiled, regional, charitable, and fund-raising cookbooks) are a unique genre of culinary literature. Community cookbooks focus on home cooking, often documenting regional, ethnic, family, and societal traditions, as well as local history)
    • found: Recipes for reading : community cookbooks, stories, histories, ©1997(contents include: "Tried receipts" : an overview of America's charitable cookbooks / Janice Bluestein Longone)
    • found: M94.9 WQMX Akron's country station 2002 charity cookbook for Battered Women's Shelter of Summit & Medina Counties, ©2002.
  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on cookbooks that contain recipes submitted by community organizations, often church or civic groups, frequently including a history of the organization and the region, personal recollections or local culinary traditions. Individual community cookbooks are entered under the specific heading or headings for the type of recipes included, e.g., [Casserole cooking; Cooking, American--New England style.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 1995-10-19: new
    • 2018-03-13: revised
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