Searching for a good potluck cookbook--need to impress co-workers--any suggestions?

Question

There is an average of 30-40 people each time we have a potluck lunch, so I need some suggestions for a cookbook rather than recipes.

Answer 1

A little discussed but widely known fact about potlucks is that they tend to inspire fierce competition among dedicated cooks. After all, who can hang around a potluck table without wondering whose dish disappeared the quickest? Which was the tastiest? The most labor intensive? We intend for every one of our visitor's dishes to fly off of the table and win a spot in the non-official Independence Day Potluck Hall of Fame!

If you and your co-workers do a lot of pot luck lunches, I am going to suggest not a recipe but a cookbook that is devoted to recipes best served for a crowd.

If you want to buy one just put "POTLUCK COOKBOOK" into a search on eBay--you can get them for a few bucks up to $10.

If you don't want to buy one, go to the library and check out any cookbook annual and start going through recipes.

But one of the best potluck cookbooks out there is one from 1993 titled: POTLUCK for 33,000. It was published as a fund raiser for a department store and the recipes were made and voted on by the employees. There's one on eBay for sale now--the link is below.

Happy eating!

Answer 2

The Real Man's Cookbook... By W. J. Rayment -Barnes and Noble

Answer 3

This is a recipe more than a suggested cookbook but its easy to make, and feeds a lot, and its cheap to make!
I modified it to make enough for 24-30

MEXICAN COLE SLAW
10 avocados, ripe, peeled and diced
12 bunch cilantro, finely diced
12 large tomato diced
12 cabbage, sliced and diced
6 bunch celery, diced
6 brown onions, diced
5 fresh jalapeno, seeds removed then diced
Mayo
salt/pepper to taste

Add the cabbage, then the cilantro, tomato, celery / onion, jalapeno and a dash of salt/pepper. Mix well.
Add the avocado then mayo- just enough to moisten to your taste. Mix well. Chill for 2 hours and serve cold

Answer 4

Best of country potluck recipes

by Jean Steiner

* Type: English : Book Book
* Publisher: Greendale, Wis. : Reiman Media Group, ©2002.
* ISBN: 0898213541
* OCLC: 52035221

* Subjects: Cookery, American. | American cooking.
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/4b39c7ab916d77cda19afeb4da09e526.html

Answer 5

i found a good one by emeril lagasse in barnes and noble. i think the title was pretty simple...like emeril's pot luck cookbook or something like that

Answer 6

Try Google.

Answer 7

yesterday today and tomorrow