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Featured Recipes from the SCUA Cookbook Collection
by Audrey Sage We have selected four books from four of NC’s counties from which to feature a special recipe. It is difficult to choose just one as each of these books contain so many delicious and unique recipes! Carteret County – Down East Recipes – Enjoy Your Age Published by Sea Level Health Care […]
Mountain Cooking by John Parris
by Audrey Sage John Parris was born in Sylva, North Carolina and began writing for the local weekly paper, The Jackson County Journal, at the age of thirteen. He later went on to write as a feature writer in New York, then later in London during World War II for the United Press. He continued […]
New Acquisitions – Fall 2022
RARE BOOKS “Capacity Taste, and Fertile Imagination” We recently purchased a copy of François Menon’s The Art of Modern Cookery Displayed (1767) for our Historical Cookbooks in the Woman’s Collection. This copy is the first edition in English of Menon’s encyclopedic cookbook, translated from the original French Les soupers de la cour (1755). Promoting simple […]
