Litchfield Fine Art and Food Festival March 7-8

We have a booth at Litchfield Fine Art and Food Festival Sat-Sun, March 7-8 from 9am-5pm. Join us to share stories of AZ history, Tastes & Treasures: A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona, food memories, historic places and people of AZ. Our booth is on Old Litchfield Rd, just south of Wigwam Blvd. It is next to Litchfield Park Historical Society. 

Chris, Lynn, Pat, Judy, Margaret and Ruth will be there!

Pumpkin Flan from Elote Cafe in Sedona

Testing recipes for the new cookbook is a big part of the preparation. I am astounded to learn that some cookbooks do NOT test the recipes before printing. With Chef Leslie Christiansen at the helm, we are testing the recipes 3 times to make sure the ingredients are available and the directions are clear. She is also writing some very helpful hints to the procedures.


Here's a new dish: Pumpkin Flan tested by Kathy Holcombe. Delicious and very worthy to be in the cookbook!

Recipe tester Kathy Holcombe

Cookbook meetings informative and fun

Comprised of an amazing group of Historical League volunteers, the cookbook committee is having fun while working on Tastes & Treasures A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona, Volume II. So many new venues, new recipes, new histories . . . we're excited to create the new cookbook from it's infancy to it's publication. And we are always interested in sharing the stories of Arizona through this book.

Cookbooks very popular

Tastes & Treasures cookbook continues to be a popular item. Sharron McKinney mentioned our cookbook to her quilting group. When they learned that the history of Arizona, historical venues and recipes from all over the state are in the book, three friends ordered. Sharron has more books to deliver to her friends at their next meeting.
Thanks to Sharron and the original cookbook committee for writing such an award winning book.
We look forward to Volume II to be published in Fall of 2017.

Cookbook Committee meets with Evans Communications

Ruth McLeod, Linda Corderman and Cathy Shumard
after a meeting with Evans Communications.

Many cookbook planning meetings have been held this summer.
One of the meetings was with Andrea Evans of Evans Communications. We are very pleased to work with them on Corporate Sponsorships for Tastes & Treasures Volume II.
Over 26 historic venues are lined up for the new cookbook. Collecting recipes and visiting historic places has been exciting and rewarding, often including lunches or Happy Hour!