the ""we care cookbook"" that feeds millions

Robert and Kathy Reed—a young married couple living in Saratoga, California—are just plain folks like most of us . . . except for one astounding fact. Since December 1972 they've helped feed 1,500,000 children scattered throughout Honduras, Haiti, Greece and other hunger-pocked areas of the globe! How so? The Reeds each made a very personal decision to not let a crisis-crunched world overwhelm them. Instead, Bob and Kathy optimistically concentrated on finding something they could do to alleviate human suffering. And this lead to their affiliation with the Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere.

"Although we were vaguely aware of CARE's existence before," Bob says, "we'd never contributed. But now the light came on." And a blazing light it was. Quickly bypassing the easy option of making regular donations to the Cooperative, the Reeds used their own natural ingenuity and deep concern to produce something that would snowball their talents into massive assistance for a famineridden world. That "something" is—of course—the WE CARE COOKBOOK.

After spending weeks researching hundreds of "receipt books" from the 1800's and early 1900's at the University of California—and working with the close cooperation of the San Francisco Field Office of CARE—Bob and Kathy published the COOKBOOK. It contains 300 of the best old-timey recipes they could gather . . . all based on natural-food ingredients and reprinted in their original wording (hurrah!). Here's a sampling of the goodies that graced the dining tables of our forefathers and are featured in the Reeds' kitchen manual: scalloped tomatoes, individual chicken shortcakes, oyster croquettes, ham boiled in cider, chocolate gingerbread, wine jelly, lemon ice cream (from scratch) and deviled crabs. The attractive pen sketches and borderline prints throughout the guide further enhance its old-fashioned appeal.