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Nutbread and Nostalgia

Junior League of South Bend

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Twins agree on this cookbook. 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

With four children my twin sister did a lot of cooking while they were all home. On our birthday, I would always give her a cookbook as we both like to "read" cookbooks and cook too. "Nutbread and Nostalgia" was purchased from a small kitchen store in Astoria, OR in 1987. I was having dinner with a friend at a nearby restaurant when I picked this gem of a cookbook out for my sister. I must have stood there for a long time looking at the various recipes (a sign that I am enthralled with the content). When it came to our birthday, I received a copy of the same book from my friend. What a treasure!

This book is filled with sepia toned photographs from the turn of the century and includes menu ideas and recipes of "comfort" food that I am sure you will enjoy.

A Classic in our Family 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

We still have our copy of "Nutbread and Nostalgia" from 1979 - the binding is ripped away, pages are rough on the edges, and my Mom still uses it all the time (she keeps it wrapped with a rubber band to keep it together).
I am SO happy to see that it's still in print - we were going to try to photocopy the entire book and re-bind it, but now I can just purchase a brand new one for my Mom!
There are probably about twelve recipes in here that became family favorites... I look forward to having a new copy for myself as well.

100 Years of Good Cooking: The Minnesota Centennial Cookbook

Huck

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Excellent recepies 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I have cooked many recipies from this book, and they all taseted good!

Editorial Review:

Features more than 375 recipes from city and farm kitchens across the state. Originally published to celebrate the Minnesota Statehood Centennial, this cookbook continues to delight lovers of good food with a rewarding collection of traditional ethnic specialties and regional favorites.

Above and Beyond Parsley: Food for the Senses

Junior League of Kansas City, Mo Jr. League Of Kansas City

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Above and Beyond Parsley is just that 5 out of 5 stars.
15 of 15 people found this review helpful.

I have prepared many of the recipes from this book and have found all I have tried to be wonderful. They are easy to follow, and the collection of recipes is diverse and appeals to the most discriminating of tastes. This book also provides visuals on the art of artistic meal presentation. Of the cookbooks that I own, I know if a meal is prepared from this book all will be happy, especially me!

My most marked up cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This book will hardly fit back on the shelf: Yellow post-it notes hang from its margins, nearly a pad-ful so far, each marking a high-taste recipe. I've only had the book a year, but it has fast become a favorite.

Wonderful cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I've had this cookbook for several years and I think it's terrific. I haven't made a recipe from it that disappointed me.

The recipes are not difficult to make, so anyone should be able to cook from this book. The food turns out a bit sophisticated. You could easily use some of these recipes for a dinner party.

Two of the recipes I really enjoyed from this book were Mustard Ginger Pork Chops and Minestrone. The pork chops were wonderful - you basically add a simple marinade (pretty easy to do!). The minestrone is wonderful! It is probably my favorite soup ever. It uses ham to give it a smoky flavor, then you add a number of veggies and pasta to it, and top it off with cilantro and parmesan cheese. This is a great soup to make at the beginning of the week and have it for lunch every day for the rest of the week. I've made this soup so many times and I've even tried to freeze it (although I wouldn't recommend that). This is also a good soup to fix ahead of time if you're going to have guests. Add a salad and some bread and you have quite a nice lunch.

Besides the recipes, the photography in this book is amazing. It's quite different than other cookbooks. I would have to consider the photos as "art" because they are of the quality of framed photographic art. I keep thinking of taking this book off of my cookbook shelf and using it as a "coffee table book" because it is so beautiful.

Overall, I would recommend this cookbook to almost anyone. The recipes are simple but elegant and the pictures make the book a joy just to look through.

Home Cookin' with Dave's Mom

Jess Cagle, Dorothy Letterman

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Home Cookin' With Dave's Mom 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Here is a book that has all of the recipes of foods that you have enjoyed throughout a babyboomer's lifetime. The chicken casserole is my favorite and it is a standard of mine for now.There are a lot of photographs of the food and nothing is too esoteric.

What a great cookbook! 5 out of 5 stars.
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What makes this cookbook so nice is that David Letterman's mother is a real down to earth person. Her recipes and those she collected for the book are simple. Dorothy is a cutie and adds little anecdotes and stories from her own childhood as well as when David was growing up. It's homespun fun and a joy to read!

Absolutely Wonderful on Several Levels 5 out of 5 stars.
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The recipes here, clearly presented (and some photographed) as the real thing for down-home Midwest cooking, are, in my opinion, not the most valuable feature of this book. After all, literally many hundreds of other cookbooks are available.

This cookbook reminds me of Lance Armstrong's book, It's Not About the Bike. In other words, Dave's mom's book is, in my opinion, not mainly about the recipes. Instead, its primary value is that it opens a wonderful window on a charmingly (almost angelically) gracious woman, her children and husband, her beautifully wholesome, decent values, and the Indiana town in which David Letterman was fortunate to have been raised. Some of the photos could almost be Norman Rockwell paintings -- innocent, smiling faces, a delightful come-on-in kitchen with family photos on the refrigerator door.

In short, Dave's mom, Dorothy, shows us how we might wish every kid could grow up, and (sort of, if you leave out some sugar and white flour here and there) how every kid should be able to eat in a near-ideal world.

Photos of five-year-old Dave and his older sister, photos of Dave's mother as a beautiful child and radiant young mom, photos of Dave playing baseball in grade school -- these along with his mom's innocent and wholesome comments, are alone worth the price of the book.

I loved this book partly because my wife and I spent a few years in Dave's part of the US, and partly because my Utah-farm mom and Oklahoma-farm dad raised me and my sister in a similar modest house with similar home cookin' made from similar recipes.

This book will have you wanting to make Dave's mom's meatloaf and cherry pie, so you and your family can dig into it while nostalgically placing yourselves in the clean-cut, simpler times in the small-town America we are in danger of permanently losing.

Editorial Review:

Gathers delicious recipes from the culinary collection of David Letterman's mother, accompanied by down-home humor, warmhearted advice, and photographs from the Letterman family album. Reprint.

Cleveland Food Memories: A Nostalgic Look Back at Food We Loved, the Places We Boughtit, and the People Who Made It Special

Gail Ghetia Bellamy

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Grade it: "Incomplete" 2 out of 5 stars.
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This is a good book for baby boomers like myself to trip down memory lane. Or so I thought. I enjoyed the pictures. But I had several problems with this book. If we were in school I would have to grade it "incomplete". Some of the pictures do not indicate the location: the picture of the people lined up in front of the Hough Bakery after V-J; the two pictures of the Manner's on page 37; the old Lawson store that is pictured...and it goes on and on and on. Where were they located?

Many of her stories start off interesting then drop you and leave you hanging. She mentions that in the 1940s there were four Chandler & Rudd stores. Then she switches to Heinen's. What happened to Chandler & Rudd? There is an old ad for Fisher Foods but only a mere mention of Fazio's and no mention of Stop-N-Shop.

Many items that folks may remember get an one word mention like the Forum or Dearings, others are shown over and over again like Manners. Whatever happened to the Uncle Marty ice cream trucks? No mention of them. Some of the East Side barbeque joints of the 1950s and 60s like Whitmore's or Hot Sauce William's or Ferris'? No mention of them. Peterson Nuts. Yes. King's Nuts. No.

But the kisser is: there's a picture of Otto's Deli. And that's it. All of the places you could go and get a great corned beef sandwich? Hold on to the memory.

And don't look for them in this book.

Editorial Review:

Remember when food was local?

. . . when Cleveland companies made it, and local people sold it and ran the restaurants where we ate it?

Food makes powerful memories. Just mention Hough Bakeries and see how quickly we Clevelanders start to drool over just the thought of those long-lost white cakes. This book collects the fondest memories of fellow Clevelanders who all share an ache for treats from the past. There were Frostees in Higbees’ basement. Popcorn balls at Euclid Beach. Burgers at Manners or Mawby’s or Kenny King’s. Entertainment-filled nights at Alpine Village. Mustard at old Municipal Stadium . . . and so much more. Look inside and rediscover some of your own favorite local flavors!

Lion House Lite Recipes

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Ovens of Brittany Cookbook

Therese Allen

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

This cookbook rocks! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I have used this cookbook for years and everything that I have made has been excellent. Most recipes are easy to do and you will get rave reviews from your friends and family.

My favorites include all the soups, Bailey's Corn Oat Muffins, and the Carrot Cake.

Enjoy!

My absolute favorite! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This cookbook is so full of awesome recipes of such a wide variety!! This is, honestly, my very favorite cookbook. Couldn't live without it.

Best Cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
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Eating at the Ovens of Brittany was a real treat when I was in graduate school at UW-Madison. I've used this cookbook for about 20 years and it's still my favorite. The Triple Chip Cookies have become my signature recipe and I'm in trouble with my friends if I don't bring them to a gathering. The blueberry muffins are my all time favorites; hearty bread muffins, not sweet and cake-like. I just ordered my second copy of the cookbook. I wore the first one out!

Editorial Review:

Since the first Ovens of Brittany restaurant opened its doors in 1972, throngs of customers have enjoyed the menu and the ambience of this unique restaurant. Although the restaurants are now closed, the demand for the cookbook is as strong as ever. Whether you are a loyal Ovens fan or simply looking for new and exciting recipes, this cookbook is for you.

Prairie Cooks: Glorified Rice, Three-Day Buns, and Other Reminiscences (Bur Oak Book)

Carrie Young, Felicia Young

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Book was wonderful and included recipes and social history 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Let's just put it this way, I read the whole book in one sitting. In fact, I couldn't put the book down. The author wrote short histories and included recipes to go along with the family history. Of course along the way, she told some mighty funny stories, especially about how one of her sisters managed to set the out house on fire. Really funny. I haven't laughed so hard while reading a book in sometime. A definite buy --- even if I haven't tried her recipes. Most recipes are common to Scandinavian cooking and Scandinavian American cooking.

More Than a Cookbook 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book was very dear to my heart as both my parents were of Norwegian descent and grew up close to where the author did in Western North Dakota. It's a wonderful portrait of what life was like in the rural Great Plains in the early part of the 20th century and a thought-provoking contrast to our lives today. And I never did get Mom's recipe for Glorified Rice so I was glad to find not one but several ingredient lists for this nostalgic dish!

Editorial Review:

In this book, Carrie Young presents a portrait of prairie cooking.

Joyce Lamont's Favorite Minnesota Recipes & Radio Memories

Joyce Lamont, Linda Larsen

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

In more than fifty years of broadcasting from the Twin Cities WCCO, Joyce Lamont shared countless recipes, household tips, travel notes, and homey anecdotes with her audience. In the process she became one of the best-loved cooks, household helpers, and radio personalities in the Midwest--and a virtual member of the family for millions of listeners. This book collects 300 recipes from Joyce Lamonts kitchen--all of them well tested over time by her vast and devoted audience. Characteristically simple, well-seasoned, delicious, family-friendly, and reliable, these recipes are the essence of comfort food. Each week WCCOs "Best Buys" guided homemakers to the foods that were in season, at peak quality, and reasonably priced. Just so, this book follows the calendar, directing readers to the freshest ingredients available throughout the year and making the most of these in recipes that celebrate the seasons plenty. Sweetened and spiced throughout with Ms. Lamonts reminiscences of radio personalities and on-air antics, these recipes invite us back into one of the warmest and most welcoming kitchens ever to serve such a close, extended family. And as a bonus the book includes a collection of Ms. Lamonts household hints--tips that range from drying gourds for decoration to the best way to open a stubborn jar--suggestions that are as trustworthy and timeless as the recipes they accompany.

The Madison County Cookbook: Homespun Recipes, Family Traditions, & Recollections from Winterset, Iowa-The Heart of Madison County

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Typical local cookbook 2 out of 5 stars.
5 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This cookbook is pretty much exactly the same as any other charity cookbook you can get in any rural area. It's a collection of mostly country style recipes that were submitted by residents of Madison County, Iowa. Of course, the fascination with the bestselling novel "Bridges of Madison County" explains why this particular local cookbook was released nationally. As such, the cookbook is fine, and there are a number of stories included that some people might find interesting (again submitted by local residents).

The main fault of the cookbook is the lack of standardization across recipes, leading to recipes that are sometimes vague. For example, one recipe may call for "1 can of tomato juice," but not specify what size can to use. Many of the casserole recipes are especially vague; for example, indicating that one should "cook one chicken," but not explaining how the chicken should be cooked. This cookbook would probably make a nice gift for persons who like country style food and who already know quite a bit about how to cook in this manner. Others beware.

Editorial Review:

The Madison County Cookbook is a delicious resource for those who seek to celebrate life, build community, and hand down traditions. It is the perfect addition to the cooking bookshelf of anyone who wishes to experience the taste and feel of the country that so attracted Robert Kincaid. Readers are likely to be reminded of their own family traditions.

As a bonus, a patchwork of anecdotes, stories, customs, and authentic family activities add a distinctive charm to the book. The Madison County Cookbook also includes pictures of historic sites in Madison County.