Article: FIRST COURSE; Book became melting pot for potluck recipes

When a potluck turns up on your social calendar, where do you turn for a recipe?

Chances are, it's not the "Silver Palate Cookbook" or "Best of Gourmet." More likely, a well-worn, spiral-bound community cookbook is pulled from the shelf.

That's what makes a new book from Trails Books in Madison -- "Potluck!" -- such a perfect little collection.

All of its 200-plus "dish-to-pass" recipes hail from community cookbooks produced in Wisconsin in the last couple of years. Dishes such as Bewitching Chili, Second Helping Salad and Aunt Carol's Lemon Zucchini Cookies were culled from collections prepared by churches, schools, a curling club, a singing group.

Author Toni Brandeis Streckert pored over ...

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