this Cook Book life » St. Louis http://www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com/blog Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:43:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Jennie Benedict’s Blue Ribbon Cook Book re-issued http://www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com/blog/2008/10/18/jennie-benedict-blue-ribbon-cook-book/ http://www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com/blog/2008/10/18/jennie-benedict-blue-ribbon-cook-book/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:59:59 +0000 jj http://www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com/blog/?p=771 blue ribbon cook book jennie benedict The University of Kentucky Press has re-issued Jennie Benedict’s Blue Ribbon Cook Book. The recipe for her famous Benedictine spread, conspicuously absent from previous editions, appears in the re-issue.

Susan Reigler, former Louisville Courier-Journal restaurant critic and author of the Compass American Guide to Kentucky and Adventures in Dining: Kentucky Bourbon Country has contributed a new introduction.

According to John Egerton,

Jennie C. Benedict was a renowned Louisville caterer and cafe
owner from 1898 to 1925. Miss Benedict pioneered in gas-stove
cooking and was a creator as well as replicator of classic dishes.
Benedictine spread was one of her contributions. The recipes in
this collector’s dream of a cookbook are a blend of Southern and
cosmopolitan, from spoonbread and sugar pie to lamb chops.

J.P. Morton & Company (of Louisville) published Miss Benedict’s autobiography, The Road To Dream Acre in 1938.

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