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.
