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Free to cookbooks to good Central Ohio homes.  There will really be no way to screen the good homes for cookbooks from bad homes for cookbooks… anyway I have some old HER Cookbooks if anyone is missing some from their collection.  If anyone still cooks.  If anyone still uses cookbooks.  I look at cookbooks… but I also find recipes online and I don’t cook much anymore…  Times have changed.

In one case the cookbook published by “HER Realtors” is a ”Celebrity Cookbook.”  

The celebrities in the Celebrity Cookbook No. 9 are not just local celebrities… national celebrities… international celebrities submitted recipes but the cookbooks are from Columbus.  HER Realtors did cookbooks for years… the last cookbook was produced for the companies 50th Anniversary in 2006. 

I don’t have any of the 50th Anniversary cookbooks but I do have a limited number of cookbooks …

Cookbook 17th Edition-  2002

Cookbook 15th Edition - 1988

and a very limited number of  Celebrity Cookbook No. 9.  

 I inherited the issues of  Celebrity Cookbook No. 9.  from someone, sometime because that edition was published loooooong before I was with HER Realtors (the company is now Real Living HER) or lived in Columbus…  They are old.  Collectors item?

The HER cookbooks don’t have a year published on them but I can tell the 17th edition was published after February 2002 from the “Message from Harley E. Rouda” inside the front cover.  I bet the 17th Edition Cookbook was published in late 2002.

The 15th edition…of the HER Cookbook was published  in the 42nd year of the company so that would have been 1998? 

On an introductory page of the 15th Edition the founder of the company, Harley E. Rouda says the first HER Realtors cookbook was published in 1975… the year of the Celebrity Cookbook Number 9 has to be at least 1984 then…. 

When that cookbook was published Ronald Reagan was president, Nancy Reagan shared “Baja California Chicken”  and … “President Reagan’s Favorite Macaroni and Cheese” with Central Ohio residents.

Vice President George Bush (or maybe his staff) contributed a Lemon Bar recipe. 

There are recipes from senators,  congressman and governors in the Celebrity Cookbook No. 9.  There are recipes from Central Ohio mayors, newscasters and politicians as well.  There are recipes from teachers and principals at local schools mixed in…. There are recipes from Central Ohio restaurants some that I have never heard of.  There are recipes from local business leaders.

There’s a recipe from Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and one from Prince Rainer III of Monaco.

Other celebrity recipes… 

Willard Scott’s “Cheese Grits Souffle” recipe Willard Scott of The Today Show

“Ed McMahon’s Roast Turkey and Dressing” recipe - The  Tonight Show sidekick of Johnny Carson. 

Pete Rozelle’s (the football commissioner) recipe for “Onion’s Rozelle (for barbecue) an there’s  a recipe from Roger Staubach and a recipe “from the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders” for Taco Salad.

Recipes from Art Linkletter, Carol Burnette, Brent Musburger (he was with CBS sports back then…) , Jerry Lewis, Connie Chang, Bruce Jenner and other 1980’s celebrities are throughout the book. 

Ed Koch was the mayor of New York City when the book was publishd and shared a recipe for gazpacho, Senator Gary Hart submitted “The Famous Senate Restaurant Bean Soup Recipe” to the 9th edition of the HER Realtor’s cookbook.  Wonder if it was pre scandal or post scandal?

Closer to home Eldon Miller was the OSU basketball coach and shared a recipe for ‘Brocolli Dip.”  The Celebrity Cookbook No. 9 from HER Realtors has a recipe from Doug Adair and Mona Scott Anchors - Newswatch 4  (WCMH - TV)…  a recipe for a cheese log. Jimmy Crum has a recipe in the book. Mel Dodge, the President of the Greater Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau shared “My Mother’s Nut Bread.” Sherrod Brown was the secretary of state at the time and his wife Ellen is credited for providing a recipe for “French Puffs.”

Anyway if you are in Central Ohio and want a copy of any of the three cookbooks contact me and we can make arrangements for you to pick up cookbooks from the front desk at my office on High Street in Worthington. 

I’m not mailing cookbooks… I blogged about cookbooks once on the original Columbus Best Blog and heard from people who had lived in Columbus but had moved away… nolstalgia…  Columbus Cookbooks free to good Central Ohio homes…

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