Personal Recipes and Cowboy Chow from the La Leche League
Community cookbooks. You know I love them. They tell the story of a community and their food. But in some cases the community cookbook is not documenting an actual community location (like a local church or school) but instead a community of like-minded individuals that may have never met in person. This community could be organized around membership in a common group. From the collection of Gena Philibert-Ortega An example of this is the 1970s cookbook, Mother's in the Kitchen. The LLL Cookbook. This "community" cookbook documents members of La Leche League from all over the United States and Canada. This is one of those times that you wish the index was a surname index and not just an alphabetical list of recipes. So these are recipes by moms for moms. The About section explains that The purpose of our Mother's in the Kitchen is to help mothers plan nourishing meals for their families using the best of the products available on the market today. It's...
