By; Gabriela Yareliz
My new hobby is reading cookbooks. I saw this particularly old one, and it reminded me of the community and church cookbooks of the 70s, 80s and 90s. You know what I am talking about— the spiral bound ones that look like they were typed up on a typewriter. The books compiled by the ladies of the church. It gave me nostalgia.
In efforts to show my husband, I found a bunch on eBay that I am about to start collecting. There was something about those days. We used to sell some of these at the bookstore/ country store where I worked in college.
Long live the community recipes shared for posterity. The OGs of self-publishing were the women in the churches wearing aprons preparing a good potluck.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 