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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 12, 2005

Contact: Marisa Ramirez
713.743.8152 (office)
713.204.9798 (cell)
mrcannon@uh.edu

HOUSTON, April 12, 2005– Something’s cooking at The University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management. The 20th Century Recipe Collection and Used Cookbook Sale is open to the public for the first time, and is set for 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., April 25 - 29 at the Hilton College Library and Archives, second floor of the South Wing.

“We have been operating an annual used cookbook sale each April since 1999 for our students,” Director of the Hospitality Industry Archives Cathleen Baird said. “This is the first year that we decided to make the cookbooks available to the general public, and we are getting a tremendous response.”

The collection is comprised of cookbook donations from hundreds of food-lovers and recipe-collectors worldwide, and includes a variety of choices from bound volumes of Gourmet Magazine and Junior League cookbooks from all over the U.S. Thus far, the sale only was open to students and faculty, but was changed in hopes of reaching more people for the benefit of the library and archives.

Contributors to the collection include celebrities such as Chef Paul Prudhomme, Houston’s Dr. Michael DeBakey, and entrepreneur and domestic queen Martha Stewart. Specialty diet cookbooks are also available for vegetarian, high fiber, and diabetic methods of cooking, as well as compilations of recipes from Time-Life, Bon Appétit, and Food & Wine magazines.

The recipe collections and cookbooks range in price from 25 cents to $5, with a few higher priced volumes. All proceeds will benefit the Hilton College Library & Archives. Parking is available for $7 in the UH Hilton Hotel garage. For directions and more parking information, please visit http://www.uh.edu/campus_map/buildings/CHC.html or contact Cathleen Baird at 713.743.2470.

For more information on the UH Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, please visit http://www.hrm.uh.edu/

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