Source Record 1801
| Description: | Source Type} Newspaper | Family History} Hancock | ||
| Newspapers.com. The Napa Valley Register (Napa, California) Sat, Apr 5, 1980, p. 90, Col. 1. 'Vi's Vittles' on the bookstand By BERNICE DUNN Have you ever made an oyster cocktail? Artichoke and mushroom appetizer? Old-fashioned potatoe salad? Or dough hotcakes? Hungarian oxtails? Irish beal loaf? Angel Charlotte Russe? If you haven't it's because you haven't read "Vi's Vittles." The above-mentioned recipes may sound a bit exotic, but this would not be a true picture of the book which Vi calls "a homey-general cookbook". Most of the recipes are quite down to earth — a summer salad, a quick casserole, Auntie's Rae's Apple Cake, to name a few. But it is the touch here and there that lends uniqueness to the recipes — Blue cheese with yogurt, onions and tomatoes with smoked salmon, a cornish hen stuffed with fruit salad, as examples. The book is spiral bound with stout carboard black covers and it is hand written in calligraphy by Linda Scott and Martha Walker. The charming drawings here and there were done by Patty Duhig Bunker, Vi's daughter. Already the book has had an excellent sale and will soon go into a second printing. Recently at a food convention at the Silverado Country Club, a copy of "Vi's Vittles" was given to each delegate. The food editor of The New York Times, Miss Renetta, phoned the Napa Book Company operated by Speed Hervieux and asked to have a copy sent to her for review. It took two years for Vi to put the book together — she is not only a gourmet cook but runs Vi's Begonia Gardens, which entails an enormous amount of work, too. Vi is now busy on a second cookbook to be entitled, "Mom, You Gave Away All Our Secrets" which her son said when he read "Vi's Vittles". Vi is donating half of the net profits from her book to the Napa Branch of the American Cancer Society. She herself has had two radical cancer operations as she says in the Foreward to the book. "Vi's Vittles" sells for $6.95 and may be obtained in most bookstores, some of the food shops and health stores, even a florist's shop. | ||||
| Source Cost } $ 0.00 Kind of Evidence} Reproduction |
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