Cohousing-L Mailing List: Quantity Cooking - sources

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

In response to a request to the list, for resources for quantity cooking 
in the common house, I have received a number of responses. Here is the 
summary:

Web Sites:
http://dir.lycos.com/Home/Recipes/Quantity_Cooking/
*I checked this out and it has good stuff
      
http://dir.lycos.com/Home/Recipes/Vegetarian/


(http://www.ic.org/nica/General/Refer1.htm-- this is a link to the lycos 
site above)

"the recipe file from the CNN News website. (http://www.cnn.com/) The 
recipes give you the option of recalculating the ingredients to fit any 
number of people, and all of
the recipes that I've tried are fairly easy and taste good. The homepage
for CNN provides daily recipes and there is also a searchable file."

http://homecooking.about.com/food/homecooking/library/weekly/aa022299.htm?o
nce=true&,  Good : especially links to many major cookbooks like Food for 
50, Moosewood Restaurant Cooks for a Crowd


Additional input:
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I have two suggestions for books, one I just received for Christmas and
haven't had a chance to use yet: American Regional Cooking for 8 or 50, by
George Karousos, et al. John Wiley and Sons, 1993. ISBN 0-471-57085-0
The cover indicates a price of $39.95 but I got a remaindered copy on
amazon.com for around $15. It looks good, has more than 200 recipes from
different regions of the country categorized by courses (appetizers, 
entree,
salads, etc.). All recipes come proportioned for either 8 or 50 servings
making it easy to adapt for other amounts. It also has ideas for lower fat
foods and offers both US and metric sizes.

I have also extensively used a couple books that I got when I was a 
cooking
student. Both are intended for professionals but offer utility for any
cohousing chef. Both have recipes in quantity of course, but also offer a
great deal of technique and knowledge about cooking for groups. I would 
look
for these books at any college that has culinary courses.

Professional Cooking

Professional Baking
both by Wayne Gisslen.

Michael Donovan
Village in the City
St. Louis MO
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The best online used book sources are abe.com and bibliofind.com.  Try
keywords like 'quantity' and 'professional' in the keyword fields.

Robert Schrader
Fifth Avenue Books
3838 Fifth Avenue
San Diego, Ca, 92103
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I have a recipe for Kentucky Burgoo for 650...

Ann Zabaldo
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I don't think we ever came up with a good source for big recipes. The kind
of think we like to cook seems to be mutually exclusive with the big 
church
supper type of food. What we have found is that we can figure out how to
simplify or modify recipes on our own, and experience has been our 
teacher.
We have really good meals.

I think there is a great desire for a cohousing cookbook, but maybe it 
will
never happen because we all just figure it out on our own and don't have 
the
will to make it formal. I'll be interested in any response you get.
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
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you might want to check the cohousing-L archives also:

http://nzpp.virtualave.net/coho/
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/cohousing/
(I did not get to doing this.)

Thanks to all who responded!

Lynn Nadeau
RoseWind Cohousing, Port Townsend WA