I like to eat. I love to try different kinds of food; we have potlucks at my office several times per year, and it’s so much fun to try everyone’s best dish. The Made With Love cookbook is a sort of ‘visual potluck’ where you can almost taste the different recipes just by reading about them and seeing the pictures of the finished dish. Each contributor also wrote a few lines telling why they contributed their recipe, so it almost seems like you’re sharing good food with friends.
The recipes are well written and beautifully photographed. Family favorites from every type of celebrity are included – from Mario Batali and Martha Stewart to Helen Mirren and Fran Drescher to Big Bird. Add in first ladies, governors, journalists and musicians, and you have a lot of good eating in this book!
Made With Love is a celebrity cookbook published to benefit the Meals On Wheels program. Meals On Wheels is the only national program dedicated to providing America’s senior citizens with daily meals. It doesn’t sound like all that much until you realize that there are 5,000 programs nationwide with more than 800,000 volunteers that provide more than a million (yes, that is a MILLION) meals daily to our nation’s seniors.
Some meals are served at local centers, others are delivered to shut-ins, that may have little contact with others. Their daily meals also serve as a safety check, and for some, this may be their only contact with others.
Meals On Wheels Association of America is a great organization that provides a much needed service for our senior population. You may learn more about them at MOWAA.org or on Facebook at MOWAA.
Made With Love
The Meals on Wheels Family Cookbook
Edited by Enid Borden
296 pages, 29.95 US, published by BenBella
Available at fine booksellers, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Book-a-Million, among others.
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I am always looking for new ideas to cook, this cookbook seems pretty cool.
I just love cookbooks and this one sounds like a real winner.
Meals on Wheels is a fabulous organization!
These are the kinds of meals I love to cook when feeding a group.
Meals on wheels is such a great organization, great cookbook to get
My dad gets Meals on Wheels, so I'm pretty sure this cookbook will contain easy to prepare but nutritious recipes. I would love to check it out.
I love cookbooks..especially with glossy photos that give you an idea of how the food is really supposed to look…I like when it looks like I can actually make it, and a food stylist isn't needed…lol.. I think the big plus to this book is the fact that it gives back to the Meals on Wheels program… (used to go with my Mom when she delivered meals when I was a kid.. my brothers and I never wanted to go, but she insisted by saying that we may be the only visitors that a person could have that week… she was right)
meals on wheels is such a great organization! you can never have too many cookbooks!
Ok, well I want this cookbook just to see the recipe contributed by Big Bird!!
And I love a cookbook that actually has pictures, it amazes me how many cookbooks don't
YES! What is up with that new trend?
Oooh…this looks good! And it's huge! $20 is a little more than I usually spend on a cookbook, but this one looks like it's worth it. The pictures alone look so inspiring.
This sounds great–I love cookbooks with great photos and it's such a great organization.
I love cookbooks, this is probably a really good one.
I'd like to try these recipes.
meals on wheels is a great organization. these cookbooks look great.the pics on the covers are beautiful and the food looks so apetizing!! id love them!!
THANKS! 
What a great organization!!
I love cookbooks so much! They are so helpful! I would love to have this.
Meals and wheels is great and I always love new recipes
The meals on wheels program is such a great cause and to try the recipes in there would be fantastic
It is wonderful to find a cookbook published for the purpose of helping a good cause. It'll be nice to see a list of all of the contributors and what recipes they included.
Meals On Wheels is such a worthy cause. I collect cookbooks and I have cooked at least one recipe from them all. I'm always interested in what someone else is cooking. Thanks for this opportunity.
Carol L
This answered a few questions I had about this program.
I enjoy compilation cookbooks like this because of the variety of recipes you get. There are all sorts of difficulty levels and tastes. Thanks for bringing this article to my atttention
I'd love to try the Jerusalem Artichoke Gratin.
ilike to learn to make solme new kind of good food
WE HAVE MEALS ON WHEELS, AND IT WAS A BIG HELP TO MY DAD,. I LOVE THE PROGRAM.
I love how this book was made to benefit the Meals On Wheels program. Such a good thing!
I really could use a book like this to learn to make a more than ordinary meal
sibabe64 at ptd dot net
Meals on Wheels is such a great and important program, and what a clever idea to have a cookbook supporting them! Glad that it has amazing photos and descriptions!
I've kind of made it a point to buy cookbooks as gifts for people…and in some accessories ( whisk, bamboo spoons, etc) and I always looks for the books with a purpose.. this one sounds interesting, like there would be decent stories behind the recipes, and the fact that it gives to Meals on Wheels, it's pretty much a must buy…thanks so much for sharing this!!
I like that people are volunteering to feed the seniors.
I love that they're published to benefit Meals on Wheels, it's a great program and to get the word out about it just makes it all the better.
I'm glad you pointed out how many pictures are in this book. I really struggle with cookbooks that have no pictures because I really need that visual appeal to be drawn to the dish.