CALLING ALL COOKS: COOKBOOK SALE AT UH
HILTON COLLEGE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES
For the First Time, Sale Open to the Public
HOUSTON, April 12, 2005– Something’s cooking at The
University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant
Management. The 20th Century Recipe Collection and Used Cookbook
Sale is open to the public for the first time, and is set for 9
a.m. to 6 p.m., April 25 - 29 at the Hilton College Library and
Archives, second floor of the South Wing.
“We have been operating an annual used cookbook sale each
April since 1999 for our students,” Director of the Hospitality
Industry Archives Cathleen Baird said. “This is the first
year that we decided to make the cookbooks available to the general
public, and we are getting a tremendous response.”
The collection is comprised of cookbook donations from hundreds
of food-lovers and recipe-collectors worldwide, and includes a variety
of choices from bound volumes of Gourmet Magazine and Junior League
cookbooks from all over the U.S. Thus far, the sale only was open
to students and faculty, but was changed in hopes of reaching more
people for the benefit of the library and archives.
Contributors to the collection include celebrities such as Chef
Paul Prudhomme, Houston’s Dr. Michael DeBakey, and entrepreneur
and domestic queen Martha Stewart. Specialty diet cookbooks are
also available for vegetarian, high fiber, and diabetic methods
of cooking, as well as compilations of recipes from Time-Life, Bon
Appétit, and Food & Wine magazines.
The recipe collections and cookbooks range in price from 25 cents
to $5, with a few higher priced volumes. All proceeds will benefit
the Hilton College Library & Archives. Parking is available
for $7 in the UH Hilton Hotel garage. For directions and more parking
information, please visit http://www.uh.edu/campus_map/buildings/CHC.html
or contact Cathleen Baird at 713.743.2470.
For more information on the UH Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel
and Restaurant Management, please visit http://www.hrm.uh.edu/
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