Ingredients for a great gift

By Joleen Oshiro

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 05, 2012

~~<p>The gift of a great cookbook continues giving for years, decades, even generations. Think of the dog-eared, food-stained pages of your family’s favorite collections. At my house, Mom kept hers in a drawer right next to her precious recipe box. Eventually, the pages of her most treasured local cookbooks became brittle with age, but the recipes live on, some transferred to index cards or stored in computers. A number still make it to the table, cooked by her children, nieces or nephews.</p>
<p>Many isle cookbooks are written each year, and they are worth considering because you never know, one of those recipes may become the stuff of family tradition.</p>
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The gift of a great cookbook continues giving for years, decades, even generations. Think of the dog-eared, food-stained pages of your family’s favorite collections. At my house, Mom kept hers in a drawer right next to her precious recipe box. Eventually, the pages of her most treasured local cookbooks became brittle with age, but the recipes live on, some transferred to index cards or stored in computers. A number still make it to the table, cooked by her children, nieces or nephews.

Many isle cookbooks are written each year, and they are worth considering because you never know, one of those recipes may become the stuff of family tradition. Login for more...