I have taken a few days off in the kitchen. I will be back on Thursday, due to traveling back and forth to the Falls! I hope you are all enjoying the sneak peak to the cookbook and we are getting really excited for the soon to be release date!
Did you see the Newspaper!!!
Thanks to the Niagara Gazette, they have done a lot of advertising for A Stir in the Mist!
Taste-testing the new Niagara Falls Cookbook
NIAGARA FALLS GAZETTE ARTICLE—
The ladies helping to create the newest Niagara Falls cookbook had to try hundreds of recipes.At every meeting volunteers each brought many of the recipes being considered for the book and everybody tasted and critiqued. It was, as they say, a hard job, but someone had to do it.
“I just didn’t want it to end,” said Maria Brown, city comptroller, who is volunteering her accounting skills to the committee and attended the many food tastings.
“The food was outstanding,” she said. “It was so much fun I’m going to miss seeing the other members on a regular basis.”
Well, it had to end sooner or later. The final 350 recipes have been selected from nearly 800 contributions and those involved say these are the very best offerings from the cooks and chefs in the region.“It’s beyond our expectations,” said Rita Majka, Boys and Girls Club director of development who has been leading the effort to immortalize some of the area’s best recipes.“We want people to know the book will be ready for the holidays,” she said. The cost, with taxes, is $25 and the committee plans to print about 3,000 copies in the first run.The book is a hardcover and embellished with the Niagara Falls based art by local artist Kath Schifano of Grand Island. It includes recipes from many local cultures as well as favorites from local restaurants. Many of the pages include history of the region.The committee has raised over $20,000 for the first run of the book. They will need about $29,000 to go to press, she said, and the hope is that once the initial costs of the first printing are paid, reprinting will be much less costly and the book can raise money for the club for many years to come.
The cookbook committee is having a rummage sale to collect the final few thousand required for the first printing of the book. The sale is being held at the Boys and Girls Club of Niagara Falls from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 28 and 29.When the book is printed it will be sold in area tourist shops and at the Boys and Girls Club.Committee members are currently meeting with major retailers such as Wegmans in hopes of getting more exposure in the community. Those who would like to pre-order can send a check for $25 to the Boys and Girls Club of Niagara Falls, 725 17th St., Niagara Falls, NY 14301.
What a great article they put in! Please keep following for more information.
August 28-29th from 8am-1pm at the Niagara Falls Boys and Girls Club(725 17th Street)
We will be having a Giant Community Rummage Sale!
All Items Donated to Sell are Welcome!
Stop by and check out the selection, and be sure to tell friends!
Hope to See you there!