Food for thought, as always, Amy. Grateful for this. And yes- Philly was a hotbed of community recipe booklets/swaps/collaboration. When I lived there, I baked for the chestnut hill women’s exchange. Great snapshot of local, community driven baking.. Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for you!
Oh, I need to know more about the exchange! The only one I saw in existence was the Baltimore Ladies Industrial Exchange, and was in awe of its cafe & long function.
Loved this latest post! I l have a couple of very old community cookbooks with the same type of local ads and same style of recipe write-ups within. They are so fun to look through.
And I think it's a shame that where I live, at least, that food pantries have to remind people to not donate expired food. I don't know if those who do so just aren't paying attention to such things or look upon it as a way of getting rid of expired food and nobody will be the wiser.
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you enjoy your time in the kitchen preparing for it.
But please, PLEASE, edit your post, as you'd unknowingly made a BIG error: It is NOT the University of Michigan whose community cookbook collection you'd browsed online. That collection belongs to MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY. (Michigan State is also connected to Liberty Hyde Bailey, whom you've written of in the past).
Food for thought, as always, Amy. Grateful for this. And yes- Philly was a hotbed of community recipe booklets/swaps/collaboration. When I lived there, I baked for the chestnut hill women’s exchange. Great snapshot of local, community driven baking.. Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for you!
Oh, I need to know more about the exchange! The only one I saw in existence was the Baltimore Ladies Industrial Exchange, and was in awe of its cafe & long function.
Loved this latest post! I l have a couple of very old community cookbooks with the same type of local ads and same style of recipe write-ups within. They are so fun to look through.
And I think it's a shame that where I live, at least, that food pantries have to remind people to not donate expired food. I don't know if those who do so just aren't paying attention to such things or look upon it as a way of getting rid of expired food and nobody will be the wiser.
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you enjoy your time in the kitchen preparing for it.
But please, PLEASE, edit your post, as you'd unknowingly made a BIG error: It is NOT the University of Michigan whose community cookbook collection you'd browsed online. That collection belongs to MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY. (Michigan State is also connected to Liberty Hyde Bailey, whom you've written of in the past).
As a Spartan alum, I had to point out this error!
Oh, thank you for letting me know Aimee! I'm chagrined I did not know the difference. Fixing it now.
I hope you have a great Thanksgiving too!
Thanks for replying so soon! No reason why you would have known the difference; you're a long way off from the state of Michigan.
Handpies! ❤️