Food snobs are often disdainful of community-produced cookbooks. It is true that many of them are bad – the type wherein PTA parents contribute recipes that are popular with their children, and which feature inventive combinations of packaged products, such as canned soups mixed with frozen potatoes and vegetables, or boxed cake mixes with instant pudding, covered with hundreds and thousands. The recipes are then compiled into a spiral-bound book that is partially funded by local...
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