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A TASTE OF HOME/READERS DIGEST BOOK

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EDITORIAL

Editor-in-Chief: CATHERINE CASSIDY

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Editor: JANET BRIGGS

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Contributing Layout Designer: HOLLY PATCH

Copy Chief: DEB WARLAUMONT MULVEY

Copy Editors: ALYSSE GEAR, MARY C. HANSON, DULCIE SHOENER

Recipe Editor: MARY KING

Contributing Proofreaders: VALERIE BERG PHILLIPS, BARBARA SCHUETZ

Contributing Indexer: JULIE KASTELLO

Recipe Content Manager: COLLEEN KING

Recipe Testing: TASTE OF HOME TEST KITCHEN

Food Photography: TASTE OF HOME PHOTO STUDIO

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International Standard Book Number: 978-1-61765-096-3

COVER PHOTOGRAPHY

Photographers: JIM WIELAND, GRACE NATOLI SHELDON

Food Styling Manager: SARAH THOMPSON

Food Stylist: KAITLYN BESASIE

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PICTURED ON FRONT COVER (FROM LEFT): Meaty Spinach Manicotti, Sour Cream Chocolate Cake, Champagne-Basted Turkey.

Think about your favorite dishesyour own familys creations, the ones you grew up with, the stuff of legends, the ones everyone loves. Now call to mind the faces and stories behind each of those memorable dishes. Right there, my friends, is the magic of food.

What I love so much about Taste of Home is that we celebrate the folks who make each recipe come to life.

The most popular recipes are always wed to at least one wonderful story, and the best loved have a namesake, a person, attached right to them. They say that people make the place. Well, people make the food, too, in more ways than just cooking it. What I love so much about Taste of Home is that we celebrate the folks who make each recipe come to life.

And thats exactly what makes this book so special. Its not just great recipes, and not just award-winning recipes. These are our best loved recipes. The ones that conjure up heavenly aromas, that bring you back to Sunday dinner tables, summer picnics and holiday parties, that call vividly to mind the special cooks who made them. The ones that make you close your eyes, smile and say, Mmmm!

Food is most nourishing when theres a history of love baked right into the crust, caramelized into the casserole, simmered into the sauce. In this beautiful book, as well as in Taste of Home magazine, on our website and even in technology that has yet to appear on kitchen counters, we will always share with you the name of the special home cook who has been generous and proud enough to share a best loved recipe, a personal story, a moment in time with us. That your loved ones have been enchanted enough with a dish to turn it into family legend in your recipe collection is, in the end, the magic of food. And its what Taste of Home is all about.

Enjoy!

Catherine Cassidy
Editor-in-Chief
Taste of Home

GOOD RECIPES, GREAT STORIES

Celebrating 20 Years of Taste of Home

The recipe was simple: Create a magazine devoted to delicious home-cooked food, packed with recipes submitted by readers. Share the recipes with othersand share the stories, cooking hints and tips of the folks who submitted them. Mix and serve.

So the call went out to 1,400 home cooks across North America and nearly all of them responded, sending in their best, tastiest, most treasured recipes for the first issue.

But all good recipes need a great name, and the editors cooking up this new magazine didnt have one. They batted around titles like Home Cooking, Whats Cooking, Dinner Bell, and many others that didnt quite fit.

In the end, it was one of those home cooks who saved the day. Responding to our earliest requests for ideas to shape the magazine, Janet Siciak of Bernard, Massachusetts, wrote: You want the title of your magazine to conjure up the kind of expectant anticipation you get when youre offered a peek into a dear friends heirloom recipe collection; a title that suggests food that isa taste of home.

From its humble origins 20 years ago, Taste of Home has become one of Americas most popularand most trustednames in home cooking. What started as one bimonthly publication has evolved into a family of magazines, special issues, annuals, cookbooks and digital editions. Those first 1,400 home cooks who sent in the handwritten recipes that filled our early issues have been joined by a reading audience numbered in the millions, and they submit almost 100,000 recipes a year, covering a range of tastes and styles as broad as the American palate.