Hoping for a summer release, work on a new Chilmark Community Cookbook is underway. Chilmark Church Cookbook Recipe Invitation
The Chilmark Community Church is collecting recipes for a new cookbook! You are invited to contribute recipes.
Please fill out a recipe page and leave it at the library or send it to LMARIEWISE1955@gmail.com before May 1st.
The Chilmark Church Cookbook Committee hopes to collect over 150 recipes before May 1st for a late spring publication.
Thank you for sharing your family favorites for all to enjoy!
Forms are available on the table in the back of the church sanctuary, at the library and at Menemsha Texaco.
Below is a description of our new project by Katie Carroll in her February 20 town column. Original cookbook from 1987 pictured.
It is a bit ironic that in an era where we have more access to global flavors than ever before, our own kitchens have become quieter. Between the convenience of dining out, take out, delivery, pre-made meal services and the relentless pace of modern life, the home cooked meal has started to feel more like a luxury or a chore than a daily rhythm. However, there is something irreplaceable about a meal made by hand. It’s about intentionally choosing your ingredients and the warmth that a home-cooked meal brings to a living space.
Back in, I think it was 1987, the folks at the Chilmark Church facilitated a community cookbook. Many of us have a somewhat tattered copy in our kitchen cabinets — tattered from constantly opening a time capsule that takes us back to the by gone era and recipes that were Chilmark’s social fabric. Wandering the pages lined with recipes from Ethel Sherman, Gail Derick, Ethel Whitman, Roberta Morgan, Fannie Jenkinson, Barbara Murphy, Carole Larsen, Polly Meinelt, Mary Larsen, Marguerite Cottle, Vibeke Simonsen, Eileen May, Nancy Steves, Hilda Jason, Jackie Sexton, Nancy Marvel, Harriette Otteson, Jini Poole, Rena Fischer, Bette Carroll, Midge Good, Lillian Kellman, Audrey Leaf, Gladys Flanders and so many more is, not only inspirational, but a smile producing trip down Memory Lane. I feel very grateful to be able to peruse the pages so many old friends pieced together.
To bring the communal, home-based, kitchen-reclaiming experience back into our homes, the folks at the church, led by Emily Broderick, are looking for recipes to fill the pages of volume II. Although I am not quite sure when the recipe forms are due back, they can be found at the church and the library and Menemsha Texaco. All wonderful recipes are welcome and alpha gal friendly ones are desired.