Taste cookbooks

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Last update: September 30, 2009 - 3:20 PM

Taste has only three cookbooks to its name. (These should not be confused with the yearly collections of cooking-contest recipes from 1977 to 1987 from the Minneapolis Tribune's Food section, which was a separate section from Taste.)

In 1972 Taste produced "The Best of Taste," a collection of 500 recipes at a cost of $2.95. "Son of Best of Taste" (later renamed "Best of Taste II") followed in 1974, with 525 recipes and a price of $4.45.

In 2008, editor Lee Svitak Dean published the recipes and menus she had developed for Taste in "Come One, Come All: Easy Entertaining With Seasonal Menus" (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 150 recipes, $29.95).

The two early volumes are long out-of-print, but turn up occasionally at yard sales and on eBay. Dean's book is available widely in bookstores.

Recent Taste stories

Edamame enhances soups, stews - September 30, 2009

Edamame enhances soups, stews - For several years now, we've enjoyed edamame as an appetizer in Japanese restaurants where you just squeeze the blanched soybeans from their pods directly into your mouth. Then we began to notice edamame frozen in the pods in the supermarket, and finally, bags of shelled edamame have appeared. More