‘Good Eats’Hotel Library cookbooks help with holiday feasting
Want to change your luck in the new year? Need to learn how to truss a turkey?
A recipe for beans and cornbread, which is served for good luck on New Year’s Day in the South, and step-by-step instructions for preparing a “roast beast” this holiday season can be found at the Nestlé Hotel Library in Statler Hall. The library’s wide selection of holiday cookbooks will motivate even the most reluctant chefs, whatever the celebration.
Alongside recipes for gefilte fish soufflés and fried okra, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah titles also offer essays about the history and the significance of these holidays. The library also contains a number of vegetarian and vegan cuisine holiday cookbooks, including Ithaca’s very own, “Moosewood Restaurant Celebrates.”
For the more culinary challenged, “Christmas Cooking for Dummies” offers lots of helpful tips – one of them being that “it’s OK to buy canned fruit.”