The Cookbooks of Home: An Invitation to Join LT's August List of the Month

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The Cookbooks of Home: An Invitation to Join LT's August List of the Month

1AbigailAdams26
aug 11, 2021, 5:18 pm

Hi All,

I hope that it's OK that I've dropped in out of the blue! I didn't see any group rules prohibiting announcements on your homepage, so here goes:

LibraryThing's community-curated List of the Month for August is devoted to "The Cookbooks of Home." These are meant to be cookbooks that reflect the cuisine of each member's home country or region. Whether home signifies the place where one was born and raised, or the place where one now lives, is left for the member to decide.

I hope some of you cookbook lovers and collectors will participate in this month's list, as it seems right up your alley:
https://www.librarything.com/list/43165/all/The-Cookbooks-of-Home#

2MrsLee
aug 11, 2021, 5:39 pm

>1 AbigailAdams26: Thanks for letting us know! Interesting topic for a list. Hard for me because I don't use recipes for the dishes that reflect my region. My country is far too large and varied. In my home, the cookbooks most frequented are from far away countries. :)

3AbigailAdams26
aug 11, 2021, 5:44 pm

>2 MrsLee: Fair enough! I had to think a bit, in terms of what "home" and "home cooking" mean to me. Someone on Facebook mentioned church cookbooks, and that reminded me of some church cookbooks that we had when I was a child. Alas, I no longer have them! It doesn't get much more local than that...

4hipdeep
aug 11, 2021, 5:54 pm

>1 AbigailAdams26: What a wonderful idea!

5lilithcat
aug 11, 2021, 6:19 pm

>3 AbigailAdams26:

Someone on Facebook mentioned church cookbooks, and that reminded me of some church cookbooks that we had when I was a child.

I added a synagogue cookbook to the list, and may the Chicago Symphony's, too.

6AbigailAdams26
aug 11, 2021, 6:59 pm

>5 lilithcat: I saw that, and it made me rather envious, that you still had yours. I lost a lot of books in a flood at a storage unit, a few years ago.

7hfglen
Redigerat: aug 12, 2021, 5:33 am

>1 AbigailAdams26: Great idea! Like MrsLee, I live in a very multicultural area, but in South Africa we have more than a few local cookbooks, some dating back to Queen Victoria's Glorious Days. I shall be happy to add a selection from my own collection to your list.

ETA: Done! But I can't help thinking that I've omitted at least a dozen worthy ones for each on the list.

8AbigailAdams26
aug 12, 2021, 9:46 am

>7 hfglen: Thank you for adding your selections. Yes, a five-book limit does mean that one has to think carefully about the best titles!

9hipdeep
aug 12, 2021, 1:40 pm

I'm enjoying seeing people adding non-regional cookbooks which (I assume) are the cookbooks which "taste like home" to them. Trying to decide whether I want to do that too, or stick to a more literal interpretation of "home" as "a place" (or a bunch of places).

10AbigailAdams26
aug 12, 2021, 1:50 pm

>9 hipdeep: I particularly like reading people's notes, when they add them. Very interesting indeed, to get a peak into their thought process. And of course, as a Star Trek fan, I got a chuckle out of the Star Trek cookbook. :)

11LolaWalser
aug 12, 2021, 2:17 pm

I've added the 1930s classic from Dalmatia. The author was born not just in my hometown but in the same neighbourhood my mum still lives in.

But I'm reminded of Apicius's classic intro to preparing stuffed flamingo (first, catch a flamingo)--I feel that, for the seafood recipes at least, the first step ought to be, "first, move to the eastern coast of the Adriatic... no later than 1975..."

12cjayosburn
sep 8, 2021, 11:51 am

I'm late to this list, but I have added my favorite local cookbooks (most from Junior Leagues) from where I grew up (Colorado) and where I live now (Southside Virginia). I have enjoyed reviewing the others posted, and will have to add some of them to my collection.

13AbigailAdams26
sep 8, 2021, 12:17 pm

>12 cjayosburn: Although they are created in a particular month, the nice thing is that the lists can always be added to, after the fact!