We have written about community cookbooks a few times for our members: Community cookbooks make a comeback and A not-so-guilty pleasure: Community cookbooks. Today, I would like to share a little about a community that banded together to create cookbooks to help their town and its residents.

Recipes of Youngstown's first book was first released in 2014 to help replace the wheel at historic Lanterman’s Mill in Mill Creek Park. In 2015, their second book was published with the proceeds to benefit the Mahoning Valley Historical Society (MVHS). In 2017, a third volume was published with proceeds to continue to support MVHS and a new purpose was to establish a scholarship for veterans at Youngstown State University. 

In November 2018, Recipes of Youngstown was honored to receive a National Philanthropy Day award.  At that point, they had raised almost $200K in 4 ½ years. The amount for the park was at “$82,000 and growing,” and for MVHS at that point, it was $73,000. The goal for the veterans' scholarship: $100,000.  In the 18 months since then, funds have continued to grow.  Now the vast majority of sales go toward that scholarship.

Youngstown, Ohio has a rich ethnic history and below you will see a listing of the types of recipes included:

Also, the organization has provided us with one recipe from each volume to try now.

The organization is now taking preorders on an entire set of the cookbooks which includes all three volumes for $75.00. EYB members can use the code EYB5 for $5.00 off one set or EYB10 for 10% off multiple sets. These codes expire on July 31st, 2020.

To help spread the news about these great community cookbooks and Youngstown's good work, they are offering one set of the books in our giveaway open to US only. Entry options include answering the following question in the comments section of this blog post.

Do you enjoy community cookbooks and if so do you have a favorite?

Please note that you must be logged into the Rafflecopter contest before posting or your entry won’t be counted. For more information on this process, please see our step-by-step help post and this forum post. Once you log in and enter your member name you will be directed to the next entry option – the blog comment. After that, there are additional options that you can complete for more entries. Be sure to check your spam filters to receive our email notifications. Prizes can take up to 6 weeks to arrive from the publishers. If you are not already a Member, you can join at no cost. The contest ends at midnight on August 13th, 2020.

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