Are such charitable causes essential to community cookbooks ?
A- Yes, that’s what defines them! Today community cookbooks raise proceeds for every conceivable contemporary issue such as child advocacy, AIDS awareness, the arts, urban revitalization, family services, homelessness, illiteracy, ecology, substance abuse, organ donation, food banks, historic preservation, multiculturalism, and of course, women’s issues such as breast cancer and domestic violence. I cannot think of any other book form with a built-in double reason to buy -the recipes and the cause! Since 9 out of 10 Americans contribute to a charity of their choice, a community cookbook seems like a logical, yet virtually untapped venue, to facilitate social change. This truth is what has drawn me to this book form. Volunteer women are not afraid to touch the real issues of this country, if not the world. . . and this cookbook communicates this truth quietly between their recipes.
