Tastes & Treasures II sales at Phoenix Country Club boutique

 Thanks to our organizer, Anne Lupica, we had a table at Phoenix Country Club Boutique to sell Tastes & Treasures II cookbook. 

Anne commented, "The book sold itself to the right audience at the right time in the right setting. We had lots of fun."

Thanks also to the fabulous helpers: Chris Hackett, Zona Lorig, Norma Jean Coulter, Laurie-Sue Retts, Patt Walker, Pat Grogg, Carolyn Hartman, Katie Tovar, Sandy Loeffler, Pat Faur and Joe Lupica for getting the Square credit card reader working! 

Pat Grogg with organizer Anne Lupica

Chris Hackett

Katie Tovar, Sandy Loeffler

Pat Faur, Carolyn Hartman

Patt Walker

Pat Faur - photographer of Tastes & Treasures II for website

Big Thank You to Pat Faur for the new photo on HistoricalLeague.org highlighting our brand new Tastes & Treasures II: A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona.

Final Proofreading for Tastes & Treasures II

Ruth McLeod, Debra Thompson, Cathy Shumard

With great delight and anticipation, we met at O'Neil Printing on Tuesday, January 23 to see the colors of the cookbook and to have one last chance to proofread.
Thanks to those marvelous "eagle eyes" we found a few more corrections before the book goes to print. Margaret Baker, Zona Lorig, Nina Filippi joined cookbook co-chairs Leslie Christiansen, Cathy Shumard and Ruth McLeod to see the Press Proof. After two years of working on this book, we are thrilled to see it at the printer.
Debra Thompson, our project manager at O'Neil Printing, was a joy to work with. O'Neil Printing is an outstanding company for quality and customer service.

Watermark page with increase in background color

Cookbook brainstorming sessions are FUN

Nothing like a working lunch, especially when Linda Corderman brought a delicious Chicken and Spinach salad and Cathy Shumard made scones using The Spicery recipe! Yummmmm.
We brainstormed about all that has happened with Tastes & Treasures, A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona, Volume II and what the next few months will bring. Looking forward to publishing in fall 2017.

Scones ready for the oven

Scones fresh and warm from the oven

Tribute Opportunity in Volume II of Tastes & Treasures Cookbook

The award winning Tastes & Treasures cookbook was first published by the Historical League in 2006 and has been a wonderful success for the organization.  We are proud to announce that the second volume of recipes will be published in 2017. All proceeds will once again go towards the League's mission to support the Arizona Historical Society and the AZ Heritage Center at Papago Park in Tempe, Arizona (formerly the Arizona Historical Society Museum). We invite you to join us so we may recognize your support for the next 10 years.


OPPORTUNITY TO INCLUDE A TRIBUTE PAGE WITH A CHERISHED LEGACY RECIPE - $500
Picture someone special in your life that showed you they loved you, in all kinds of ways, but one important way was through cooking. Whether it's a grandparent who always served your favorite dish the first night of a visit, a dear friend who taught you how to make the cookies you still love, or a relative you honor when you prepare a treasured holiday dish, a Tribute Page in TASTES & TREASURES, VOLUME II is a wonderful way to celebrate that person you love - as well as introducing the person to a larger audience. Several people can get together to form a group to create a Tribute Page in honor of a special someone. The cost of a Tribute Page in the Cherished Legacy Recipe chapter of the cookbook is $500.


To submit, please include the following:
* One recipe (to be tested and approved by the Cookbook Committee) as a tribute to an individual or organization
* A short write-up of the connection between the recipe and the person or organization being honored
* A photo of the recipe originator (will be printed in sepia tone)


CONTACT INFORMATION:
Date Submitted:_________________________
Contact Name:________________________________________________________________
Group/CompanyOrganization:____________________________________________________


Mailing Address:_______________________________________________________________
City/State/Zip:_________________________________________________________________
Phone:(office)__________________________(cell)___________________________________


E-mail:___________________________________________________________________

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PAYMENT OPTIONS:

Check payable to Historical League enclosed



Credit card payment:     Visa                    MasterCard                 AMEX


Credit card #________________________________________________________________


Billing address if different from above:___________________________________________
City/Zip:___________________________________________________________________

Please mail this form and payment to:

Tastes & Treasures Volume II Tribute Page * 1300 N. College Avenue * Tempe, Arizona 85281

Application form available soon at www.HistoricalLeague.org (go to MISSION page or STORE)

Here’s just one example of how it might go:
Tribute Page to Sedona Schnebly in Cherished Legacy Recipes
Sponsored by Lisa Schnebly-Heidinger

My great-grandmother, Sedona Schnebly, was famous for her cooking: one early visitor wrote of a Thanksgiving dinner that included turkey, beef, duck and pork, as well as a squash hollowed out and used to serve cooked cabbage.  She was a practical cook who rarely measured, but she wrote down her quick and simple apple pie dessert that her family loved.  (This photo shows her with her husband T.C. and my grandpa Ellsworth, in Sedona in about 1904.)

Sedona’s Apple Pie Dessert
Ingredients:
1 egg, beaten
½ cup brown sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup white sugar
½ cup flour
2 cups tart apples, diced
½ cup chopped nuts

Directions:

Mix all ingredients well.  Put in a buttered pie pan and bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.  Serve with cream or homemade vanilla ice cream.

New Cookbook begins

Cookbook Committee co-chairs Leslie Christiansen,
Ruth McLeod and Linda Corderman

Since almost 19,000 out of the 20,000 copies of Tastes & Treasures are gone, we are planning a new cookbook. You can call it Volume II with a similar format, great historical venues, fascinating food memories from Historymakers and delicious do-able recipes.
Glad to have the knowledge of three of the original cookbook committee members, Leslie Christiansen, Ruth McLeod and Linda Corderman working on the new version.
This new cookbook project was announced at the September Historical League meeting.

Diane Cobb helps at Mary Poppins event

So many people made the Mary Poppins event on December 6th a success. Thanks to Diane Cobb helping Ruth McLeod at the Tastes & Treasures cookbook table. Children's aprons with the Old Ned logo were popular too!

Betsy Davis enthusiastic about DAR

Belonging to such an historic group as the Daughters of the American Revolution, Historical League member Betsy Davis is enthusiastic about history. Tastes & Treasures A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona fits right in with both groups. The DAR is gifting the cookbook as a "Thank You" for their hosts and guest speakers. One non-profit helping another!

Rock Springs Cafe helps our Troops

Nice to know that Rock Springs Cafe is using the Boots for Our Troops cut-outs to help raise funds for veterans of any conflict. You can enjoy the great food, donate to a good cause and learn about Arizona when you purchase the historic cookbook, Tastes & Treasures A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona.

October is National Cookbook Month

Fall is a great time to try out your cookbook recipes and October is National Cookbook Month.

The Historical League's first cookbook (sold out), Arizona's Cooking Heritage, features a pioneer woman holding up two Gila Monsters on the cover. That recipe is interesting but tongue in cheek. Tastes & Treasures is filled with delicious menu ideas and the photographs are inspiring. You can also enjoy the history of Arizona leading up to it's Centennial celebrations February 1912-2012.

3 Generations in League Aprons

Thanksgiving cooks in their Historical League aprons: Beth Blumit Dieterle, Joan Robinson-Blumit (member) and Kathryn Dieterle, age 3. Aprons come in 3 sizes - child, junior and adult. Sharp-looking and easy to wash, League aprons make great gifts.

Scottsdale ArtFest 2009

Scottsdale’s annual ArtFest is always a good venue for the League to sell cookbooks, and it helps League coffers even more because the organization waives the rental fee. Last weekend (11/21 & 22) Carolyn Mendoza and her assistants Mariamne Moore, Lindy Isacksen, Margaret Pogue, Brigitte Warnke and Joan Robinson-Blumit sold 67 books, 2 adult aprons, 1 junior size and 1 child size. Ruth Ann and Phil Hogan assisted in breakdown of our booth on Sunday.

Carolyn’s batch of Tastes & Treasures granola (recipe page 196) was a big hit and I’d say it convinced more than one shopper to make a purchase. Displaying the photo of El Chorro Lodge’s sticky buns (recipe page 78) also attracted visitors to the League’s booth.

Recognition Luncheon

Our annual recognition luncheon for volunteers was held at Lon's, the Hermosa Inn's world renown restaurant. A historic recap of the Hermosa Inn can be found on page 94 of Tastes & Treasures. Members and guests were served Roasted Chicken and Strawberry Salad with Prickly Pear Vinaigrette, (a Lon's recipe featured on page 96 of Tastes & Treasures,) and a chocolate mouse dessert.

Dr. Robert Kravetz was our featured speaker. The author of two books, the retired physician spoke about medical practices in AZ in the 1850s when miners inhabited the state (along with Native American tribes.) Treatment mostly involved 2 methods: whiskey and herbal concoctions.

Dr. Kravetz also showed medical equipment and talked about the methods for care during the Civil War. When the war began, the North was not equipped to handle the medical needs generated by battle. Doctors were trained to treat illnesses, not wounds. They learned on the job and from it the medical triage system was developed. The South fared better with their physicians, but because of the blockade by the North, they were unable to get supplies.

There were no antibiodics, and sterlization was unknown. The lead balls shot in battles were 1/2 inch in diameter and the damage done to soldiers was a major factor in the high number of casualties. Dr. Kravetz also pointed out many soldiers came from rural communities and had never been exposed to childhood illnesses. 100,000 died from measles, for example, and infectious diseases rivaled the number of casualties that died from battle related wounds.

An interesting tidbit: silk was used to stitch wounds. Because the South was blocked by the North from receiving supplies, Confederate doctors resorted to horse hair. Horse hair is very stiff and the hair was boiled to soften it. Boiling sterilized the hair and a soldier's recovery would likely have been more successful than a wounded Union soldier's.

I hope Dr. Kravitz returns to speak at a future meeting. He touched on health history post Civil War, but he's also an authority on Native American care, health seekers to Arizona and quack medicine.

Awards Chair Kay Holcombe announced that between the League and the Museum, 7,036 hours had been logged by volunteers. Kay recognized individuals who had reached certain levels of hours. Our out-going president Jeannine Moyle then thanked the 2008-2009 officers and executive board, and passed the gavel to our 2009-2010 president, Ruth Ann Hogan.

A big thanks to Dee Steen and Mary Parker for organizing the event.

Sandra Day O'Connor Presented with Cookbook

Recently, Gail and Charles Lucky attended the 25th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. They had been to it in the past and knew that since it was the 25th anniversary, extra special events would be featured.


When they learned that Sandra Day O’Connor, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, would be the keynote speaker, Charles suggested to Gail that she give Justice O'Connor one of our cookbooks, Tastes & Treasures. Right before Justice O'Connor gave her speech, Gail had the opportunity. Justice O'Connor graciously accepted it with the comment, “I love to cook. I will treasure the book.”

Mediterranean Pasta Salad & Chocolate Peanut Treats

Two League members brought recipes from Tastes & Treasures for the luncheon at our February meeting. Bonnie Newhoff prepared the Mediterranean Pasta Salad with Basil (page 175) and Margaret Baker made the Chocolate Peanut Treats (page 162.)

Mediterranean Pasta Salad with Basil

Basil Vinaigrette
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar or fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
Salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

Salad
2 cups fusilli or penne
6 ounces haricots verts, trimmed
Salt to taste
2 large tomatoes chopped, or small grape tomatoes
Sliced kalamata olvies
2 cups fresh basil leaves, stacked and thinly sliced
1 (7-ounce) can oil-pack tuna, drained and flaked
2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced or chopped
Capers, drained and rinsed
For the viniaigrette, whisk the vinegar, basil, garlic, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper in a bowl until combined. Add the olive oil gradually, whisking constantly until the olive oil is incorporated.
For the salad, cook the pasta using the package directions and drain. Toss the hot pasta with a small amount of the vinaigrette in a bowl. Blanch the green beans in a small amount of boiling salted water in a saucepan until tender-crisp and drain. Immediately plunge into a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking process and drain.

Layer the pasta, tomatoes, olives, basil, green beans and tuna in a large salad bowl, drizzling each layer with some of the vinaigrette. Toss lightly and top with the hard-cooked eggs and capers.

Serves 4.

Honorable Mention 2008 DIY Book Awards

Last year Ruth McLeod entered Tastes & Treasures in the DIY Book Awards. The cookbook has just won Honorable Mention in the 2008 DIY Book Awards Cookbook section.

Growing Cookbook Availability

An update on market locations - Tastes & Treasures is now available for sale through DelStar (Westin Kierland, Sheraton downtown, Desert Ridge Marriott and the airport). Barnes & Noble is offering the cookbook at several Valley stores and also online.

2nd Printing of Tastes & Treasures

Tuesday morning, Ruth McLeod assembled a crew at the museum to unload a shipment of the 2nd edition of our cookbook. 2 pallets held boxes filled with a total of 2,000 books. A daunting task? Not so -- Mary Parker, Zona Lorig, Renee Donnelly, Terrie Sanford, Ruth Ann Hogan, Kay Holcombe, Jeannine Moyle, and Joan Robinson-Blumit cheerfully opened boxes; inspected books for quality; then re-sealed the boxes. Inventory numbers were assigned to the boxes, which were then moved into storage. The 830 originally printed cookbooks were moved from the storage area and transported to vehicles for storage at various members' homes or to taken to stores.

Ruth whipped up the Roast Beef Salad (recipe in above post) from Tastes & Treasures - for our lunch. Yum!

Tomorrow, 11/21 through 11/23, League members will be selling the cookbook at ArtFest in Scottsdale, which is held on the grassy area by the central library.

Recipes to Try

Zona Lorig recently made the Cashew Pea Salad on page 150 and reports that it's delicious.

The Arizona Date Cake, page 140, submitted by Betty Rhodes, the late Congressman John Rhodes’ wife, is the same recipe that Zona’s grandmother Edith Davis made and is wonderful. Her grandmother was born in Tombstone in 1885.

Happy Customer

I learned about it (Tastes & Treasures) from the Old Ned's News, which I received I guess because I'm a member of the AZ Historical Society. I received the cookbooks and loved them so much I gave them away as gifts. I need two more! Is the free shipping still available? Shall I order just like I did before?

Naomi M.