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The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook

The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook - Paperback

by Bonnie Tawse
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Bonnie TawseSeries:CookbooksPublish date:2020-06-30Pages:128
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Belt PublishingISBN-13:9781948742832ISBN-10:1948742837UPC:9781948742832Book Category:Cooking, HistoryBook Subcategory:Courses & Dishes, Regional & Ethnic, United StatesBook Topic:Cookies, American, State & LocalSize:7.20 x 4.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCN06ST389

The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook celebrates the Rust Belt tradition of the cookie table with forty-one classic recipes from authentic Mahoning Valley cooks.

What's a cookie table? Funny you should ask! The cookie table is a tradition beloved by residents of Youngstown, Pittsburgh, and parts in between. It has its roots in a time when wedding cakes were far too dear for newly arrived immigrants to purchase. Instead, family and friends showed their love for a bride and groom by baking from scratch hundreds (sometimes thousands) of cookies and other small sweet treats to be shared at the reception.

The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook includes cookies from different cultures, cookies with different textures, spices, shapes, and a trove of interesting backstories. Simple cookies, ridiculously indulgent cookies, experimental cookies?they're all here. And most of all, this cookbook shares the tradition of the cookie table, a heartfelt way of building community that has endured through generations. In the tradition of the community cookbook. Author Bonnie Tawse, a former Atlas Obscura Field Agent, collects 41 recipes that include everything from pizzelles to potato chip cookies. Buy it with Belt's Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology for the full experience!

A wonderful testament to a local baking tradition of the Midwest and a must for any kitchen large or small.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Belt PublishingISBN-13:9781948742832ISBN-10:1948742837UPC:9781948742832Book Category:Cooking, HistoryBook Subcategory:Courses & Dishes, Regional & Ethnic, United StatesBook Topic:Cookies, American, State & LocalSize:7.20 x 4.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCN06ST389
Bonnie Tawse is a writer and home baker committed to exploring the connections between food, community, and culture. She has co-hosted a Nordic Dinner series, is a former Atlas Obscura Field Agent, and helped establish children's organic gardens in parks all over Chicago. Her writing has appeared in TimeOut Chicago Kids, Chicago Parent, and for institutions such as the Cultural Landscapes Foundation and the Lurie Garden. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from CU Boulder, and her fiction has been published in ChickLit 2, Asylum Arts Annual, and Sniper Logic. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two sons and recently spent one year visiting and celebrating 52 Bakeries in 52 Weeks.
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