Buen Provecho: 500 Years of Hispanic Cuisine (1995), is one of a very few community cookbooks in my collection that focus on a specific cuisine. In some of my older cookbooks you can interpolate the ethnic origins of the community – it’s easy to tell when a congregation was founded by German or Polish immigrants…
Tag: 1990s
Funeral Potatoes (California, 1997, adapted)
Funeral potatoes are an almost meme-worthy dish these days, one of the few mid-century canned-soup-and-cream casseroles that’s still aligned with the twenty-first century palate. I’ve never been to a funeral with refreshments, much less a full meal. The dreary name presumably stems from a custom of serving them at a post-service family meal, or perhaps……
Riverbank Barbecue Baked Beans (adapted from Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee, 1996)
For a novelty cookbook I’m getting a lot of mileage out of Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee. I picked up the cookbook out of a sense of nostalgia for the old Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee daytime show. I’d still say the book is more fun to read than it is to……
Clever Pizzaiola Meatball Subs (adapted from Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee, 1993)
Clever Pizzaiola Meatball Subs are a quick and easy kid-friendly meal, adapted from the 1993 cookbook Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee. The “clever” in the title refers not to the ingenuity of the recipe – this one is actually pretty straightforward – but to the recipe’s original authors: the Clever Cleaver Brothers. I have……
Cheese Grits with Tomato Gravy (adapted from The Black Family Reunion Cookbook, 1991)
The Black Family Reunion Cookbook (1991) is a glorious cookbook compiled by the National Council of Negro Women. The recipes honor NCNW’s founder, Mary McLeod Bethune, and commemorate the organization’s annual Black Family Reunion Celebration, which honors “the historic strengths and values of the Black Family.” The recipes are peppered with stories of Ms…….
Sweet and Sour Pork with Carrots (adapted from A Taste of the Far East, 1993)
Sweet and Sour Pork with Carrots is a weeknight-friendly meal adapted from Madhur Jaffrey’s brilliant 1993 cookbook A Taste of the Far East. This dish has been a staple in our family for two decades or so, since I first found A Taste of the Far East at a local library. The ingredient list is……
Cookbook Review: Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee (1993)
CooDear heavens did I love Regis Philbin. I’m not talking about a crush or some sort of romantic love, but he had this crazy manic energy that elevated everyone and everything around him. He’s probably best remembered for his long-running stint on daytime television, but that’s not how I got to know him. I’ve been…
Cookbook Review: The Best of Beta Sigma Phi Cookbook (1991)
This cookbook came to me in kind of a roundabout way. The first time I had ever heard of Beta Sigma Phi was in one of my old vintage church cookbooks. A lovely Apple Pudding Bread recipe casually bragged that it was selected for the Beta Sigma Phi International Dessert Cookbook. The recipe itself was…
Cookbook Review: Pasta Cookbook (Country Kitchen Collection, 1990)
Pasta Cookbook is one of Jean Childress’ Country Kitchen series, which I’ve written about previously. Like other books in the series this is a small, softbound, hand-illustrated cookbook focused on “simply delicious all-American food”. There are roughly 30 recipes, all of which can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. I picked up this copy…