Plano library’s virtual seminar to focus on vintage food from various of eras and regions
Discuss your favorite infant foods and recipes from different eras and regions, including North Texas, at a virtual seminar hosted by the Plano Public Library on July 20.
The library staff plan to discuss their favorite vintage dishes and desserts, and attendees are invited to discuss theirs, too. Registration is free and can be completed online.
Resources provided by the library include a page with screenshots of vintage recipes from Plano and other parts of North Texas. Additional historical cookbooks and recipes are also available through Portal to Texas History.
Dishes up for discussion range from vintage appetizers, dinners, and drinks to cakes and healthier snacks for kids, based on a list of suggested books from the library.
To keep recipe ideas and memories flowing, the library has compiled a list of books for reading recommendations. All of the titles listed below are searchable on the library website or can be purchased from specialist retailers.
Home cooking and vintage recipe books include:
- “Betty Crocker’s Lost Recipes: Popular Vintage Recipes for Today’s Kitchen” by Betty Crocker
- “Modern comfort kitchen: Feel-good favorites fresh and new” by Lauren Grier
- “Momofuku milk bar” by Christina Tosi
- “Real snacks: make your favorite childhood treats without all the trash” by Lara Ferroni
- “Retro Recipes from the 50s and 60s: 103 Vintage Appetizers, Dinners, and Drinks Everyone Will Love,” by Addie Gundry
- “Salt Smoking Period: Homesteading and Traditional Techniques for Modern Cooking” by Will Horowitz
- “The Vintage Baker: 50+ Recipes from Butterscotch Pecan Curls to Sour Cream Mess” by Jessie Sheehan
- “Vintage Cakes: Timeless Recipes for Cupcakes, Flips, Rolls, Layers, Angel, Bundt, Chiffon and Icebox Cakes for today’s sweet tooth” by Julie Richardson
Other books listed by the library have recipes with the authors’ explanations of why they enjoy the food and why they make it. They include:
- “One dish after the other: delicious recipes and stories from my Italian-American childhood and beyond”, by Valerie Bertinelli
- “The Turmeric Trail: Recipes and Memories from an Indian Childhood” by Raghavan Iyer
- “The best chef in the world: stories from my mother’s table” by Rick Bragg
- “Summer under the Tamarind Tree: Recipes & Memories from Pakistan” by Sumayya Usamani
- “Nothing Special: Recipes and Memories of Soul Satisfying Food” by Diana Kennedy
- “Maman’s homesick cake: a Persian heart in an American kitchen” by Donia Bijan
- “Hallelujah! The welcome table: A life full of memories with recipes” by Maya Angelou
- “Kitchen yarn; Notes on Life, Love, and Food ”by Ann Hood
- “Bong Mama’s Cookbook” by Sandeepa Datta Mukherjee
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