Cookbooks and food section history

This NPR story from Friday, “Long before social networking, community cookbooks ruled the stove,” was an interesting part of culinary history.

I would, however, disagree with this statement: “With community cookbooks, Smith says, “you get an insight into history that isn’t there from any other source, it’s not in newspapers.”

After all, newspaper food sections had a long of sharing recipes. Readers regularly wrote in to ask about an old recipe they had lost or about how to replicate a dish from a local restaurant. The above book is a collection of such requests and responses from a food reporter at the Los Angeles Times. 

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