I remember growing up and I knew just who's food to eat at church dinners here in Alabama 🥰

I just purchased a box of 45 community cookbooks for only $10 at a local auction! How timely is this video! Can’t wait to go through them. I have wonderful memories of Bob Allison’s radio program. My mom listened to him every day. I have a few of his recipes that mom typed up and put in her shoebox of recipes. Also many of his helpful household tips. Those were the days. Love, love, love you and your videos.

I like finding the old recipes they brought over from the old country.

My cousin and I compiled our family's recipes and published a cookbook. I also love to collect these type of community cook books. I have some from historical societies, church groups, etc. I do love them and they really do show a snapshot of a community in time.

Yes a Calvacade cookbook would be Awesome.

I would have to say that You Tube has almost become the new community cookbook! "Food Wishes ", "Tasty", "Polish Your Kitchen", "Simply Mama Cooks", "Sam the Cooking Guy", ect, ect, etc.... Everyone seems to have a favorite channel that they subscribe to from all over the world! A "Cavalcade of Food " cookbook would be a marvelous idea though!! I think that I would be up for that!! Take care!!

I am a professional pastry chef and some of my favorite recipes are adaptations from these kinds of cookbooks; been collecting them since I was a child and that's a long long time! Vintage recipe books from Inn's around the country are wonderful to. . The internet does not hold a candle to thumbing through a book full of recipes from mom's, grandmas and aunts! In agreement with Cindy and Greg's comments below; It may be time for a Cavalcade cookbook!

The problem with giving recipes online is that many don’t work. I’m NOT referring to anything you’ve posted, Kevin! Yours work.

MaryAnn and Ralph are the best! They both add tremendous value to the video conversations! Thank you all for such a creative channel!

I had a cookbook from the Detroit Free Press (due to a fire) gone it would be about 100 years old. Thank you for all the lovely videos. I have 1975 kitchen in The Lone Star State.

You have such a wonderful way of presenting things, and inspire me to want to dig out some of my old cookbooks. Thank you for preserving all of those old beauties!

Yes, a Cavalcade of Food Cookbook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm Lov'n it!

My mother still has a community cookbook from her high school and that’s where she got her delicious fried donut 🍩 recipe from! Lol ! Another great video,Kevin & Mary!

I have one called Taste of the Town put out by our local Charity League in 1969. It was very popular here. I had to re-bind it. Those GBC comb binding machines are wonderful if you can find one. I also collect old advertising cookbooks and that would be another great topic. Let me know when you do that Food Friends cookbook. You need to include the stories behind the recipes too. Also in NC we had Betty Feezor on WBTV for 25 years. Her yellow cake recipe is fantastic. Thanks for showing us all the cookbooks.

I love this peek at your cookbook collection! There's a community cookbook from where I grew up called the Pine Grove Mennonite Church Cookbook that is LEGENDARY. There have been 14 printings since 1977! I reviewed a cookbook on my channel that consists of a compilation of meat recipes submitted by women's club leaders from all over Ohio. These are just so much fun, and like you said, you KNOW the recipes are likely to be winners.

I have 2 of my grandma's church cook books and just love them. Really old recipe's. I use them often!

I am a avid cookbook collector also. I really enjoyed this video. Love Tamson from ky 😇🧡

Love the friends cookbook idea!!!

Yes, the community cookbook is always a good book! I have a good collection of them myself. They are very interesting to read from cover to cover. Any recipe ever made from one is the best! I like the phrase "the people's cookbook" that's exactly what they are. In print they are for the people and by the people to enjoy always! Thanks for sharing!

This is so true! My mother n law was a part of a cookbook in her Senior building, and it's fantastic!

Makes my heart sing

When I lived in Detroit, I lived near the Sunbeam plant. Oh my the smells daily were heavenly. Loved the video on the Community Cook Books, they are my favorite cookbooks that I have.

I love this episode! I have a few cook books from the 20's and 30's. They are fascinating to look through. Have a great day! :)

Your right cookbooks make great Relaxing Reading! & So inspiring for family or entertaining FUN.

I love the idea of a Cavalcade Cookbook! I'm still working up the... basic videography skills to start my own channel, and so it's going to be a while before Kestrel gets going, but I'd love to submit something!

I love old cookbooks. Where I live in the Missouri Ozarks is a cookbook called Sassafras!… I swear every household in this area has one or a relative that has one.. it’s recipes that we all grew up with around here and the most famous is Springfield style Cashew chicken which was invented here. It’s becoming quite a rare book to find here cause no one let’s go of theirs!

Great topic/video. I cannot resist community cookbooks (pre microwave era) at yard sales/ thrift stores! Thank you for another great episode! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

I enjoyed seeing all those retro community cookbooks. I have a few myself. Take care. 😎

That's awesome my grandma an uncle lived in Cuyahoga falls Ohio. I drive thru the falls area about 3 times a month. Love the content

Yes, these are legacies. We did one of these in 4th grade? (mine was Polish Holiday Bread - a babka I imagine, I can't recall) Man, I would so love to see some of those Polish recipes. I have one of these from Tarentum Presbyterian church, Allegheny County, PA, (1989). given to an old roommate from her grandmother. She left it when she moved out and I kept it.

It is more fun to follow a recipe out of a cookbook. People shared their special recipes that they were proud of. Plus the "New" recipes often take shortcuts.

I have a newer one that is only about 10 years old or so. It was put together by the wives of the Boston Red Sox players and was sold outside Fenway Park. I even have it autographed by all the Red Sox wives that were there that day. Not that it adds any value but it's nice. My mother, aunt and grandmother contributed to one that was part of a local hospital group. I've found several good recipes in that one. You mentioned call in radio cooking shows. Here in New England for I believe over 30 years we had "The Yankee Kitchen with Gus Saunders" which was syndicated around New England but based at the end by WROL in Boston. I believe that show ended about 1996 or so. Gus Saunders was a culinary critic who wrote a newspaper column reviewing restaurants aside from his duties hosting the radio show. When you said some people don't like to give away their recipes I can understand why some people feel like that but I figure if you give someone a recipe for something, let's say Kevin's Chocolate Cake for instance, and it becomes a tradition with this persons family they will think of you every time it's made and it may just outlive you and help keep your memory alive. We have several favorite recipes that were either made by family members that have passed or family friends that have either passed or moved away and they are thought of warmly every time we make their recipe.

I'd kill for that cosmetology cook book!!!!!

My favorite cookbooks are the community ones. They are tried and true and lots of time passed down thru generations

When you mentioned the Polish League of American Veterans Ladies Auxiliary, it was like a bell going off. My husband's grandmother was very active in PLAV. I'm going to start checking collections for the cookbooks and see if I can find family recipes. Thanks for the lead.

I really enjoyed the show today 😃

Well done! Super awesome review. Thank you

You are so right about the wonderful recipes in these cookbooks. I have many that are very old, and some fairly new. I love collecting them. I also read them cover to cover, so fun. Thank for this video, that was fun.

You share such a great perspective about community cookbooks. Very familiar w/the Baton Rouge version. Grew up in Louisiana. Back in Florida after 40+ yrs of exposure to Cajun cooking. Picked up a at local cookbook for Pensacola that had been used a good bit. Great vid. Thx for making it.

You are so right about the cook books ☺️

A CCF cookbook would be great!

I love cookbooks. I just got a bunch from my Mother in law, going back to the 50's...

I learned how to make my beloved buttermilk pie out of a church community cookbook!

Love this you know how i love my cookbooks

I cooked for about 20 years before I got a real Better Homes cook book. I look at recipes, but quite frankly have rarely followed through on them. I basically use them as a guide and put my own twist (usually a short cut) on them.

My mom had acquired quite a few of these after her parents passed away but unfortunately gave away most of them. I think I have 1 or 2 left 😔 Also speaking of recipe exchanging, my maternal grandmother was given the recipe for an amazing marinara sauce by her next door neighbor back in the 60's, which I still make to this day

This was great! Thanks! I love the anecdotal asides you can find in a community cookbook where someone mentions an addition or a tweaked measurement for better results. Our town in Connecticut celebrated the bicentennial right along with USA's bicentennial and the cookbook was fabulous. Being the youngest I had last dibs on mom's copy so I do a search every once in a while to see if I can find it for sale.

I need that Saint Latislaus cookbook in my life!

I love the few that I have. I have cookbooks from renowned chefs, but I default to the community cookbooks for a couple reasons. As you mentioned several times; the recipes are sure to be tasty. The other reason is that most of the ingredients are things commonly found in your pantry or easily obtained locally. Before my mom passed I got her to write down some of her recipes. Most of her measurements are in pinches, dabs, bunchs, abouts, to taste, etc. When I'm cooking one of her meals it's like spending time with her again.

I own the Victory Cookbook published in New Brunswick Canada during the war. The Queen Mom, who was queen at the time contributed a recipe. Grew up cooking from in. In a plastic bag now. Very fragile. I also have the Barbour Spice companies reprint of it. The recipes assume you knew how to cook. I grew up cooking out of it, but young people have a difficult time. They are use to full instruction and moderate oven means nothing to them. There is an online version of the first diabetc cookbook. A young woman wanted to try a recipe, but could not understand it. I gave her the directions.

I had a co-worker who loved to cook for parties and potlucks. She gave up some recipes for our cookbook, but left a thing or two out as a "secret" ingredient. She wanted her own dishes to taste better, always.

Or Yellow page cook book. I love all cookbooks. I also have spiral notebooks I write my favorite recipes in 😃

Yay new episode

Back in the 80s the Extension Service would have a Christmas get together for the women. They'd do a community cookbook. Bittersweet memories. Many of those people have passed now. I don't know about now but back in the stone age, Southern Living magazine would publish contributed recipes then publish an annual recipe book.

Why do you need all of these cookbooks? The answer is, “Just because!” I love flipping through hard copy cookbooks. There is no replacement for the feel of flipping those pages. Online just doesn’t cut it! 0) Community cookbooks are some of the best.

I foresee an influx of book donations from all over the country. Better make some space. 😊

I spend most of my life on the internet; I know I can look up any recipe I need, but I still love my cookbooks. I started out collecting just vintage ones, but I expanded into ones by current chefs I admire. I even have a novelty Southern Living recipe book from the year I was born ('87), and all the recipes in it are terrible! They had a whole section on just cottage cheese recipes! But it's so entertaining to read. When I was in school, I took Baking With Julia with me to read, cover to cover like a novel, in between classes. Online recipes are great, but they can never replace cookbooks.

I could spend a year and would not get through half your collection But what fun it would be

Just found your channel, so I'm catching up. Love the cookbook videos. I collect but mostly find them new homes these days. I've turned a hobby into a small business. How did you obtain so many?

Is there a site where we can pull all these books together????or Even just for ancestral purposes for the future generations?! I just got a 1966 Mennonite cookbook, I knew some of these ladies when I was little, All have passed away. How cool would it be to find great grandma's Christmas cookie recipe You had 50 years ago? This Mennonite cookbook names the husband's name and the wife...ex Mrs (man's name) her name and surname, So for ancestral purpose is it's very easy to find exactly who this person is from the small town.

Stanley county is fairly close to us, Albemerle is in Stanly County, Try the stanly county slaw if its in there If not I will send it to you.

Hello guys ❣️

A have a Bell South cook book ☺️

I looked buy them from the schools.

Food Friend here Hi

Now days they don't do cookbook sells

You should swap recipes with @glennandfriendscooking

Good day Who do you have all your items willed to ?? The Smithsonian should accept your collection. I would HATE. to think your collection would be split up .