Heritage Cookbook

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Revelstoke Museum & Archives Association, we compiled a Heritage Cookbook that went on sale last September. The cookbook has been an overwhelming success. Over 600 recipes were gathered from past and present Revelstoke residents to commemorate 50 years of preserving and celebrating Revelstoke's history.

More than just a cookbook, "A Taste of Elegance" includes beautiful heritage photographs, a tribute to Revelstoke Mayors, and bits of interesting Revelstoke facts.

Revelstoke Museum and Archives is pleased to announce that we are currently compiling recipes for a second edition of the cookbook, to be released at Revelstoke Homecoming 2009 this July.

A second edition requires many more recipes. We invite all current and former residents to submit their recipes. They can be ones that have been in your family for generations, or ones that you just discovered last week. We are especially encouraging residents from our ethnic communities to submit their recipes. Revelstoke was known for the large Italian population in "Little Italy", the Ukrainian settlement at Mount Cartier, and the Scandinavian settlers in the Big Eddy. There were also many early Japanese and Chinese families here, as well as many other ethnic groups. We especially welcome recipes from these communities.

Heritage cookbooks make excellent gifts and a great kitchen companion and the purchase of the cookbook also helps the museum preserve history for the next 50 years and more.

Stop in to purchase a copy of the first edition and pick up a recipe submission form, or email us at revelstokemuseum@telus.net for a form. Recipe deadline is April 15th.