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Endangered Recipes: Too Good to Be Forgotten

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Lari Robling's book "Endangered Recipes, Too Good to be Forgotten," is a pleasurable mixture of food, folklore, stories, and cultural and family history. The recipes and narrative make you want to head for the kitchen and start pumping parents, grandparents, great-aunts and uncles for family dishes and food tales.

From vignettes on several recipe rescuers and "Kitchen Wisdom" tips, to a section on how to collect family recipes titled "Passing Down the Plate," this work has something for anyone who eats, loves, and yearns for a link to their past. All accompanied by a chatty, informative and intelligent narrative. Beautiful work!

Lari Robling has written one of the friendliest books around, and user-friendly as well. It is full of classic American home recipes, comfort food, really useable recipes. All those cooks who are weary of the pretentiousness of the glossy magazine presentations, and who want real food in real time are going to love this book. Lari writes as if she is talking to a friend, and she understands what we all have to do in the kitchen to feed our families, but she makes sure we have a good time, too. The stories about the recipes are priceless but this is a book for cooking from, too.

Lari has bravely written a book that celebrates food as we once loved it-because it tasted good.Each recipe is accompanied by a nostaligic note that enhances its flavor.There are kindly written hints with each recipe that you will hear in your mother or grandmother's voice when you read.
Your heart,soul and stomach will be satisfied.

This wonderful book is not just full of recipes, but full of memories. Any cook book can list ingredients and directions, but not all of them also contain stories about the recipes. Mrs. Small's Crab Cakes are delicious and I don't blame Dorothy Small for keeping it to herself until the very end.

Thank you, Lari Robling and Mark Thomas.

just a wonderfully written, delightful recipe boodk. I savored each page for it's stories, "eye candy" photos of items from bygone eras and Lari's accounts of sweet and happy family memories....i was glad she told me about her book when i met her at Habitat for Humanity in Philadelphia.

Went through the whole book Not one recipe I would even want to cook cant send back cause it's a book, waste of my money

I was disappointed in this book. I doubt that I will ever make any of these dishes - none of them seem "endangered" to me.