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Midwestern Specialty Cookbook Publishers

BonusReleased Thursday, 22nd July 2021
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Midwestern Specialty Cookbook Publishers

Midwestern Specialty Cookbook Publishers

Midwestern Specialty Cookbook Publishers

Midwestern Specialty Cookbook Publishers

BonusThursday, 22nd July 2021
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On this bonus episode of the podcast, we’re continuing our conversation from Episode 5: Out in the Kitchen: A Cookbook for those with Non-Discriminating Taste compiled in 1995 by Maine Won’t Discriminate, a political coalition based in Portland, Maine. The cookbook was raising money to fight an anti-gay rights referendum that was on the ballot in Maine in the mid-1990s.  The cookbook was compiled in Portland, but it was printed and published by a specialty cookbook publisher, Cookbook Publishers, inc., based in Lenexa, Kansas. We ran out of time in the last episode to include our conversation about the development of Midwestern specialty community cookbook publishers that took place in the second half of 1900’s. We wanted to share some of that conversation with you today.

We also talk about a community cookbook recently shared with us by a friend: Tasteful Treasures, a collection of recipes by the Clark F. Miller School of Radiologic Technology at Central Maine Medical Center, Class of 2010. This community cookbook was also compiled in Maine, but printed by Morris Press Cookbooks in Kearney, Nebraska.

For the recipes from today's episode, visit: https://communitycookbook.com/recipes

To see images from today's cookbook and photos of the food we made, visit our Instagram feed or Facebook page.

https://www.instagram.com/communitycookbookpodcast/

https://www.facebook.com/communitycookbookpodcast

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Hosts: Margaret Hathaway, Karl Schatz, & Don Lindgren

Produced by Karl Schatz & Margaret Hathaway

Edited by Karl Schatz

Podcast theme music & break music by Ziv Grinberg.

Recorded on Riverside. Edited with Descript. Hosted on Simplecast.

 

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Cooking is Community: The Community Cookbook Podcast

You know these cookbooks, and you probably have at least one in your kitchen. They’re collections of home cooked recipes, put together by church groups, synagogues, school groups, political organizations, band boosters, and even biker gangs. They’re held together with stitches, comb binding, staples, or string. They’re photocopied, mimeographed, handwritten, sometimes typed out page by page. All of these books are defined by a community, with recipes collected from that community, and put together with the goal of raising money to benefit a cause within the community. These cookbooks are endlessly interesting. They illuminate various communities, share heartfelt recipes, and demonstrate creativity and grassroots publishing. They exist at the intersection of technology, home economy, advertising and marketing, and food safety, and bring more than 150 years of American history to life.The three of us collaborated on publishing the Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook. As we’ve delved deeper into these marvelous books, we’ve discovered a shared passion for these fascinating and humble cookbooks. We want to share this love with others, and so we made a podcast!In each episode, we’ll look at a single community cookbook and examine it as a physical object, a reflection of community, and a source of recipes from a very specific time and place. We’ll talk about why it’s interesting and what it says about the community it came from. We’ll interview special guests, and we’ll try a recipe or two from the cookbook’s pages. In season one we're focusing on community cookbooks from Maine. In season two we'll begin to bounce around the USA in search of the country's most interesting community cookbooks!

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