Friends of Shalom Park Cookbook Records
Abstract
Friends of Shalom Park is a group of volunteers and supporters of the Jewish nursing home and residential senior center, Shalom Park, in Aurora, Colorado. As a fundraising project, the group created the cookbook entitled, Shalom on the Range: A Roundup of Recipes and Jewish Traditions from Colorado Kitchens. The collection includes the published cookbook as well as administrative documents, marketing material, and publicity forms that describe the book's planning and publication process. The records document a project of the Colorado Jewish community in the 1990s, and they provide information about Jewish cooking in Colorado.
Dates
- 1995-2003
Creator
- Friends of Shalom Park (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
Friends of Shalom Park is a group of volunteers and supporters of the Jewish nursing home and residential senior center Shalom Park, which is located in Aurora, Colorado. The group conceived of the Shalom on the Range cookbook as a fundraiser for Shalom Park. The cookbook, published after almost three years of planning and recipe testing by Friends of Shalom Park, contains more than 350 traditional and contemporary kosher recipes as well as memories and stories from the Colorado Jewish community. The book's first printing was in 1997, followed by a second printing in 1998 and a third printing in 2001.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet (1 legal document box)
Scope and Contents
Arrangement
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accruals
Creator
- Friends of Shalom Park (Organization)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository