Six paged booklets or magazines arranged in two rows, each with distinct cover designs related to food, cooking, and community events.

Over the years, I've amassed quite the cookbook collection. Most of the cookbooks come from small communities and organizations and feature the names of the people from that community. While the communities and regions may differ, each cookbook represents the time, place, palettes and spirit of generosity that come with sharing recipes.

Here are the cookbooks I’ve featured on Caker Cooking, along with links to their respective recipes. Warning: There are a lot of them. I'm a borderline Hoarders episode.

Who knows? You might recognize one from your own city or community.

Garage sales, antique markets, dumpsters. You name it, I've been there looking for my next coil-bound gem.