Breathing Life into Your Community Cookbook Collection: A Culinary Yearbook

Community cookbooks are like high school yearbooks. People pour over yearbooks, looking for familiar faces from a moment in time. A community cookbook also offers family and friends' favorite recipes from a specific time. While lists are available to search for yearbooks, the same does not apply to community cookbooks. This session explores cookbooks as an underutilized resource and the steps that can be taken to make them accessible.

Catherine Lambrecht is a veteran of culinary competitions at the Lake County and Illinois State Fairs, a former University of Illinois Extension volunteer whose specialties were Master Food Preserver and Master Gardner, and a founder of Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance, Chicago Foodways Roundtable (sister organization to Culinary Historians of Chicago) and LTHforum.com, a Chicago culinary chat site. Catherine is also the program director for the Highland Park Historical Society, an Illinois Humanities Road Scholar, and the editor of Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair, A Bicentennial Project. A day spent well is when she learns something new.

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