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Tag Archives: Cookbooks
Novel Cuisine
It’s a given in the Quad-Cities that if an organization or business is around long enough, it will produce a cookbook. Just look at the 641.5 shelves in our Special Collections Center and you’ll see decades worth of church cookbooks, … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Wittenmyer, Cookbooks, Davenport Public Library, Novel Cuisine, Recipes
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Holiday Receipts, Davenport-style
One of the oldest cookbooks in our collections is from the First Presbyterian Church in Davenport. Titled Cook Book, its pages are brittle and smudged with use. This item has no official copyright date, but there are a few clues to its … Continue reading
We’re Cooking Now!
Although it’s well known—or should be—that our Special Collections Center archives the works of local authors, it appears that few of our patrons realize that this collection policy includes cookbooks produced by local organizations, schools, and businesses. One of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cookbooks, Margaret Pillion, Recipes, Trinity Cathedral
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