Author: DEXTER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Title: Treasured Recipes
Description: Kansas City, MO: Dexter Area Historical Society, 1980. Spiral bound. B/w drawings; 6 1/2 x 9; 156+ pages; Brown plastic spiral bound with brown and white cardboard covers. Pen notation on front of cover, referring to p. 83. A few pages have some small notations on them, but no goopy fingerprints or food residue on any pages. Has recipe contributions, first section Very Important People: by Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Gov. & Mrs. Ronald Reagan, Mrs. George (Lenore) Romney [sic, G. Romney former governor of Michigan, 1963-1969], Mrs. William G. Milliken [Gov. Of Michigan 1969-1983]. Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Abigail Van Buren [famous columnist 'Dear Abby"], Muriel Humphrey [wife of senator Hubert H. Humphrey], Mrs. Henry Ford II; Mrs. Billy Graham; Bess W. Truman; Judy Agnew; Dinah Shore; George F. Pierrot [local Detroit travelogue personality]. Back of book has blank pages fo notes/recipes; calorie counter, index of recipes. Has an 80s look to it, and refers to Gov. Milliken in the present tense [1969-1983]. Dexter is a lovely old farming community, still quite rural, outside of Ann Arbor, home to the main campus of world renowned U. Of Michigan.. Very Good .

Keywords: Cook Books; Cookbook: Cookery; Food; Ingredients; Culinary Arts; Famous People; Politicians; Michigan Governors; Women/Womens' History Cultural History American History Food/Wine Reference Anthropology/Language/Linguistics Horticulture/Botany/Plants/Garde