INTRODUCING

BY EMMA GOLDENTHAL

WITH CORBIN T LANKER

NOW AVAILABLE AT THE PUBLIC MARKET IN DOWNTOWN WHEELING

is a collection of local recipes, photography, and food stories gathered from all around our City of Wheeling. Based on interviews and tableside conversations with 26 contributors, this book celebrates some of the treasured ingredients, dishes, and food traditions that connect our neighbors to a sense of place, belonging, and community here and throughout the greater Ohio Valley.

A LITTLE OF THIS, A LITTLE OF THAT:

A WHEELING COMMUNITY COOKBOOK

Product details: 150 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Spiral bound with black plastic coil. Carbon neutral printing by Smartpress.

Sliding scale pricing - we ask that you pay what you can:

  • $15 covers the baseline cost of printing

  • $20 is our suggested price

  • $25 will pay it forwards and help cover the cost of others’ books.

Proceeds will go towards future community education programming in Wheeling, including GrowOV’s after-school cooking classes for 4th and 5th graders. Thank you for your support!


Totaling 150 pages, this cookbook contains over 100 recipes and food stories that we hope inspire your next homemade dish. It features an abundance of Puerto Rican, Polish, Italian, and Lebanese dishes, a feature on pepperoni rolls, soups and stews for snowy weather, plenty of holiday

cookies, cakes, and pies, and much more. We are also proud to highlight five East Wheeling community food institutions in this book.

From hand-drawn illustrations and black-and-white photography, to our block-printed cover featuring the Ohio River and iconic Wheeling Suspension Bridge, we’ve produced this cookbook with care.

Many of the dishes and recipes featured in this book are connected to holiday traditions, cherished childhood memories, and various Wheeling institutions past and present. They highlight the various ways that many of us cook – from written recipes, memories, intuition, and practice – as well as the ways we learn to cook, often from those around us. We hope that reading sparks memories and musings for you, too, about meaningful recipes and food traditions in your own life.

The book was created by Emma Goldenthal, an AmeriCorps volunteer, with assistance and support from Corbin T Lanker, Grow Ohio Valley’s Assistant Education Program Manager. The two also illustrated the book. Photography and cover art are by Corbin.

This cookbook was made possible through grant funding from several local and regional agencies. This includes financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts. This book has also been made possible through a grant from the West Virginia Humanities Council, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Finally, we thank Wheeling Heritage for their financial support of this project via their Partnership Grant program. Thank you!

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