Crème de Cookbook Colorado

The book I bought at the recent Friends of the Cumberland County Library Book Sale had a special seal on it’s front cover. There were also several signed notes from women in a Colorado Book Club, who apparently enjoyed cooking. This was probably a “going away gift” for Mari who was moving from Colorado to North Carolina… and either directly to, or by some circuitous path to Fayetteville, North Carolina. I am guessing you usually don’t give up a treasured gift, with all these signed well wishes, unless you absolutely have to… and at the fore of my suggested reasons is, “she died.” Also of note is that apparently Mari had a killer (my word) “finger licking good” shrimp dish and a kabob marinade.

I’ve found no other online image of this cookbook with the special gold seal (printed in the cover and not stuck on) Walter S. McIlhenny Hall of Fame, TABASCO – Community Cookbook Awards. My AI told me that this award was given for community cookbooks that sold over 100,000 copies, of which the Crème de Colorado book was one. *Another cookbook I bought at the same library book sale was “The Shadows on the Teche Cookbook” which is a plantation in New Iberia, Louisiana, the home of Tabasco, Avery Island.