SAN CARLOS, CA -- Remember the mouth-watering aroma of your favorite childhood meal, fresh from the oven? Does the velvety sensation of a sumptuous cake always reminds you of special birthdays? Have your grandparents passed on a treasured recipe for a traditional family favorite? Do you always laugh when you recall how Aunt Sophia burned the casserole and told you it was black potato chips?
Everyday meals and special occasions with the family. A crispy-grilled fish topped with salsa brings back the Food creates some of our strongest memories. A dish made a certain way brings warm memories of oceanside resort where you first tried it. A whiff of an exotic ingredient in an ethnic market captures an unforgettable travel memory.
Now, anyone can preserve these precious smells, tastes, and memories by creating a keepsake cookbook. Small or large, simple or fancy, a keepsake cookbook can safeguard recipes, stories and memories about them, photos, drawings, doodles, scraps of memorabilia-all of which combine to make the memories as fresh as they were when they were new. The result can be a unique record of a family's culinary heritage that will be cherished for generations.
Kathy Steligo's new book, Meals and Memories: How to Create Keepsake Cookbooks, ISBN 0-9669799-0-7, is a step-by-step guide filled with practical information and a generous serving of tips and examples for every part of the process: deciding on a format, collecting and laying out the recipes, writing memories, working with art and photos...hundreds of details all spelled out clearly. There's even a section on publishing fundraisers, and a list of 101 different cookbook themes. Even before publication, the book was hailed by people in the cookbook and scrapbook industries, nostalgia experts, and others (see enclosed quote sheet).
The large-format paperback book can be purchased by sending $18.95 plus $3.20 shipping (add $1.56 sales tax per book ordered in California) to PO Box 7080, San Carlos, CA 94070-7080. Call credit card orders to (800) 431-1579. Effective April 1, books may be ordered on the Web at http://www.carlopress.com/
NOTE: Author Kathy Steligo is a provocative, informative resource. Call Sarah at the above number to schedule an interview.
Meals and Memories: How To Create Keepsake Cookbooks · $18.95 · paperback · 112 pages · more than 50 illustrations, examples, and sample pages · 31 recipes · ISBN 0-9669799-0-7 · LCCCN 99-90018
