December 7, 2011
Charleston Receipts featured on FoxNews.com
Charleston Receipts is featured on the FoxNews homepage this morning in the FoxFoodie column. Check it out here.
January 19, 2011
Charleston Receipts is featured in publisher FRP’s Table Talk e-newsletter
CELEBRATING A CLASSIC!
The Junior League of Charleston’s original cookbook, Charleston Receipts, celebrated its 60th anniversary in November 2010. It is currently the oldest cookbook in print for the Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc (AJLI). As a part of the celebration, the League launched a website (www.cookinginthesouth.com) which features products, gifts baskets, the famous Tut’s Toffee, and a cooking blog & video series. The blog highlights 60 different recipes from Charleston Receipts, proving this timeless cookbook is relevant for today’s world.
In addition to the website, the League also has a Facebook page (“Cooking In The South”) which includes great tidbits & ideas. The group placed an ad in the Southern Living December 2010 (Christmas) issue which featured the League’s cookbooks, website, etc. This ad (and other local PR efforts) led to over 1,000 hits on the website in the span of 3 days!
As a part of the 60th Anniversary celebration, Junior League of Charleston has elected to become a sponsor of the Charleston Wine and Food Festival held in early March 2011. This is a huge event in Charleston , and the League is excited to be a part of it. The League is sponsoring an in-home wine tour which will include eight of the amazing homes located South of Broad in historic downtown Charleston. Each home will feature a wine maker and samples of food from the Charleston Receipts & Charleston Receipts Repeats cookbooks. Space is limited to 400 participants the event is very close to being sold out already!
In other exciting news, QVC is now going to be featuring 6 AJLI cookbooks on their channel. Charleston Receipts has been selected as one of the 6 to be featured!
Charleston Receipts is a compilation of 750 regional recipes along with sketches by Charleston artists. For its outstanding preservation of local and regional culinary customs and its benefits to the local community, Charleston Receipts was inducted into the Walter S. McIlhenny Community Cookbooks Hall of Fame in 1990.
Since 1923, the Charleston League has raised and awarded millions of dollars through various fundraising activities including the sale of its cookbooks, Charleston Receipts, Charleston Receipts Repeats, Party Receipts, Joseph’s Charleston Adventure and the latest, Charleston Receipts Album. For more information about Junior League of Charleston, visit www.jlcharleston.org.
November 17, 2010
Charleston Receipts is featured in Garden & Gun Magazine’s November newsletter:
Charleston Secrets
Next to a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet, a tattered, dog-eared, flour-smudged copy of the local Junior League cookbook provides the foundation for any respectable Southern kitchen. This November, the grand dame of League cookbooks, Charleston Receipts, celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, making it the oldest still in print. You’ll find a wealth of Charleston favorites, including benne seed wafers, Hoppin’ John, and Lady Baltimore cake, as well as throwbacks that trace the culinary history of the Holy City. Cooter soup, anyone?
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October 26, 2010
Charleston Receipts a staple in chef Ted Lee’s kitchen
In the latest issue of Publix Grape, renowned Lowcountry chef Ted Lee hails Charleston Receipts as one of his favorite Southern cookbooks.
[Charleston Receipts] shows Southern cooking as a living art that changes and adapts, telling a richly diverse story from kitchen to kitchen.
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September 21, 2010
Charleston Receipts is mentioned in the most recent issue of Access Atlanta.
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September 4, 2010
Charleston Receipts to be featured in the 2011 Charleston Wine + Food Festival!
Check out the excerpt from a recent article in the Charleston Post & Courier below or click here to read the article in full.
Winemaker receptions in private homes are being recast as “Winemaker + Private Home Tour With a Southern Twist.”
“Guests will get to travel from home to home, more of a tour,” McMillan says. The festival is working with the Junior League,
whose members will create the food with recipes from the league’s renowned Charleston Receipts cookbook.
August 2, 2010
The Oldest Junior League Cookbook Still in Print, Charleston Receipts Celebrates 60
Charleston Magazine – July 2010
Written By Anna Evans
Photographs by Betsy Shrader
“What is a ‘moderate oven’? Is it one that has centrist political opinions? Is it especially tolerant of others? Or is it 350°F?” types Hannah Gillard on the Junior League of Charleston’s (JLC) “Cooking in the South” website. With her Cinnamon Flip baking, she’s waiting to learn how well she interpreted the Charleston Receipts recipe.
The JLC cookbook turned 60 this year, and to celebrate, the leaguers are blogging about their attempts to make six dozen of its recipes. “We wanted to show its relevance today. You may need to tweak some of the receipts, but you can absolutely still use them,” says JLC member Mollie Grant. You may also want to bypass a few dishes, like Roast ’Possum.
Of course, the usability of this 1950s best seller comes as no surprise to the many cooks who still reference it. Nearly a million copies have sold, raising gobs for the League’s philanthropic projects and earning the book mention in publications ranging from The New York Times to Southern Living.
So this month, why not cook up a tribute to Charleston Receipts? In addition to summer recipes—like Spiced Pickled Shrimp and Fig Ice Cream—its Gullah verses and historical drawings are sure to entice. As for the Cinnamon Flip, you’ll have to visit www.cookinginthesouth.com to find out how it fared.
July 30, 2010
Charleston Receipts was featured in Pat Conroy’s bestseller, South of Broad.
May 28, 2010
Check out Junior League of Charleston’s own Mollie being interviewed by CookbooksLive:
April 10, 2010
Charleston Receipts was recently featured in Food & Wine Magazine!
A League of Their Own | Community Cookbooks
Before the days of blockbuster cookbooks, Americans relied on recipe collections from junior leagues and other community groups. An enthusiast explains their appeal, and F&W’s Marcia Kiesel creates holiday recipes inspired by seven classics.
By Michelle Green
Humble though they may be, community cookbooks—those homey recipe collections sold as fund-raisers by church groups and Girl Scout troops across America—have always been a passion of mine. My own favorite is Charleston Receipts. First published in 1950 by the Junior League of Charleston, it reflects the nostalgia for the old South that prevailed among low-country aristocrats during the postwar (post—Civil War) era. Since slaves developed many of the local recipes and upper-class kitchens were staffed by their descendants, the text is sprinkled with Gullah, a dialect still spoken near Charleston. With Charleston Receipts and other community cookbooks beside me, I’ve turned out comfort dishes that have never failed, like bourbon balls and frozen fruit salad.
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March 31, 2010
A recipe from Charleston Receipts is featured in the March 2010 issue of Southern Living:
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