Help us test recipes from your favorite Cambridge restauraunts

Calling all home cooks! Our esteemed Cambridge Cooks editor, Judith Elstein, is seeking your assistance in the kitchen.

The Friends of the Cambridge Public Library have embarked on a new project: we are creating a cookbook to be published in 2014. And not just any cookbook. Ours will contain recipes from some of the best, most interesting, and most creative restaurants in Cambridge.

So far we have received more than 60 recipes from restaurants such as Rialto, Craigie on Main, Elephant Walk, Bondir, Toscano, East by Northeast, Oleana, Asmara, and RendezVous. We have recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, vegetables, pasta, entrees, desserts, and even a few drinks.  

Now, we have to test the recipes – and that’s where you come in. The Friends need home cooks to try out and report on the recipes so we can be certain that directions are clear and quantities are accurate.

If you would like to be a Cambridge Cooks recipe-tester, please write to us at cambridgelibrarycooks@gmail.com, and we will get in touch with you.