Posted on: Wednesday, June 15, 2005
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Community cookbooks to share
By Wanda Adams
Advertiser Food Editor
It's been said you can't have too many cookbooks, but of course you can. And I do.
It takes a while to figure out if a recipe book is going to become a definite keeper — splattered with sauce, marked with buttery fingerprints, annotated, tattered and beloved. I'd like to keep every cookbook I get, but space just doesn't allow it. So every year or so, I go through all the books spilling out of my dining room bookcase, cull out the ones I've used only a time or two, copy out the useful recipe, and then send the book on to the Friends of the Library book sale.
Three community cookbooks I've just added to my collection — at least temporarily — are:
"Table of Plenty," Our Lady of Good Counsel, spiral bound, $12
Write: Our Lady of Good Counsel/cookbooks, 1525 Waimano Home Road, Pearl City, HI 96782; $3.85 postage and handling; checks to Our Lady of Good Counsel.
"Cooking with Pride, A Cookbook By Kids 4 Kids," by PCC Youth, spiral binder, $15
These recipes were gathered by Pearl City young people in an after-school program in which they perform community service, participate in a dance troupe and receive tutoring. In addition to more than 185 recipes, each presented in a clear, large-type step-by-step format, there are profiles of the youth participants that offer insight into the worth of the program. Recipes run the ethnic gamut. No index.
Write: PCC Youth, P.O. Box 114, Pearl City, HI 96782; price includes postage; checks to PCC Youth. "Maui 4-H Cookbook," a project of Maui 4-H; spiral bound, $10
This collection combines recipes from 4-H demonstrations and many years of Maui County Fair Cookie Contests. Proceeds benefit programs involving more than 300 Valley Isle youths — not just in livestock and home economics but also in Web design, working with dogs, entrepreneurship and other areas. This book is very heavy on baked goods and has more than 80 cookie recipes. Index is by recipe name.
Write: Maui 4-H/cookbook, c/o Kahului CES Office, 310 Ka'ahumanu Ave., Bldg. 214, Kahului, HI 96732; $4 postage and handling; checks to 4-H Cookbook Account.
Julia Cabatu, a former home economist with Hawaiian Electric, chaired the committee that produced this book. Because of the ethnic mix in this congregation, you'll find a good representation of Filipino recipes (adobo, pinakbet, igado, balatong, sari sari, ensemada, pan de sal, bibingka, cascaron, palitaw and more) but also Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Puerto Rican and "just local" dishes. Proceeds benefit a church renovation project. Alpha index by type of dish.
