When I was younger my father always went to a convention each year. My mom would go with him and after the convention they would make a little vacation out of it. Every year it was in a different place. Every year I was left behind(you may now feel sorry for me :) ). Every year my mom would try to compensate by bringing me gifts(yes, I was spoiled...but if you knew me, you would spoil me too!). I would get random t-shirts and trinkets but two things remained the same: I would get a sweatshirt from the local university and a cookbook from the local Junior League. Oh how I looked forward to getting those cookbooks. Regional cooking is so very interesting to me. Sadly though they never went anywhere back east and neither have I as an adult. My father eventually stopped going to these conventions(retired) and so my yearly Junior League cookbook allotment stopped. Boo. I then made it my tradition to buy the Junior League cookbook of places I visited. One time on the way to see my parents I … [Read more...]