Some listed contributors are deceased; in these cases, I have taken the recipes from their files or notes wherever possible. I have tried to be accurate with the information available at the time of our first printing. If anyone has any corrections or additions to the biographies that they would like to have inserted, please let we know.

In alphabetically listing and identifying the contributors. I decided the easiest way would be to identify them in relationship to Nick and/or to me, based on the assumption that anyone who receives one of these books will know who we are. So, just for the benefit of anyone who's not quite sure, here's who we are!

• CASSEVOY, EVOLYN (MIDGE) VIRGINIA KENYON - the second child of Ervin George and Virginia Townsend Kenyon, Midge has an older brother, Douglas, who lives in Anchorage. Alaska with his family. Raised in Holland Patent, N.Y. (Utica area)) Midge has been married to Nick Cassevoy for the last 30 years.
• CASSEVOY, NICHOLAS BARRY - the first born 0f 8 children (4 boys, 4 girls) of John Nicholas and Mary E. Rich Cassevoy. Nick was born and reared in Rochester, N.Y. He and wife Midge have been located in the Daytona Beach, FL area for the past 2 years.
• CASSEVOY,JANET McLEOD - Nick's paternal Grandmother, Janet was born in Scotland and later settled in the U.S.A. where she married James Meader Cassevoy. She and Grampa raised their two sons John and William in Rochester. N.Y. Janet lived from I888 - 1979.
• CASSEVOY, JERRY LOU DAWSON - A native of Cattaraugus, N.Y., Jerry is married to Nick's brother, Terry. They have four young adult children: Barry. Steve. Sonya and Tim. and now make their home in the Daytona Beach, FL area (Ponce Inlet)
• CASSEVOY. LYNN WIGSTONE - Lynn is married to Nick's brother, Brian. and comes from Chicago, Illinois. She and "B" live in Rochester, N.Y. with their young daughter, Morgan.
• CASSEVOY, MARY E. RICH - Nick's Mother. Mary is the daughter of Essie and C. Herbert Rich from Cattaraugus, and later, Rochester, N.Y. She and her husband. John N. Cassevoy raised their S children - Nick. Terry, Brian, Doug, Cathy Bonnie. Debbie, and Susan - in the Rochester area. Mary and John are now retired in Daytona Beach. FL.
• DOUGLAS, CATHERINE - The only daughter (four brothers) of Midge's cousin, Lynne, and Bob Douglas, Catherine now attends college in Charleston. South Carolina.
• DOUGLAS, LYNNE KOSTER - Midge's cousin, Lynne and her husband, Bob, live in St. Petersburg, FL. They have 4 sons - Rob. Rich. Steve. Terry - and 1 daughter. Catherine. Lynne's Mother, Catherine, and Midge's Mother, Virginia. were sisters.
• HOLBROOK, RUTH RICH - Aunt Ruth was the younger sister of Nick's Grandpa Rich, from Cattaraugus, N.Y. Married to Mac Holbrook, she was a school teacher, piano teacher, organist, and rather famous family cook. Ruth lived from 1895-1971.
• HULTSLANDER, ELAINE RACHA - Elaine is tha older sister of. Midge's sister-in-law, Gail Racha Kenyon. She and her husband, Floyd, have three children and live in Hagerstown. Md
• JOHNSON. SUSAN CASSEVOY - Nick's sister, Susan, is the youngest child of John and Mary Cassevoy. She and her husband, David, live in Rochester NY with their two young children, Amy and Ryan.
• KENYON, DAWN ELIZABETH - Dawn is the daughter and oldest child of Midge's brother and sister-in-law. Doug and Gall Kenyon. She makes her home In Anchorage, Alaska
• KENYON, OAIL RACHA - Gail is married to Midge's brother, Doug. Native upstate New Yorkers, they have lived in Anchorage, Alaska for over 20 years, and are the parents oŁ three grown children - Dawn, Doug, Jr. and Mark.
• KENYON, E. VIRGINIA TOWNSEND - A native of Peekskill₅ N.Y., Midge's Mother, Virginia, was the oldest of three children of Emma V. and James A. Townsend. Wed to Ervin G. Kenyon of Utica, N.Y., she spent 40 years of married life in Holland Patent, N.Y, where their two children, Doug and Evolyn (Midge) were raised. Virginia lived from 1902 - 1980
• KOSTER, CATHERINE TOWNSEND - Aunt Catherine was the younger sister of Midge's Mother, Virginia. The mother of one child, Lynne, who was reared tn Brooklyn, N.Y., Catherine later spent her retirement years living in St. Petersburg, FL. She lived from 1905 - 1822.
• LEWIS, CATHERINE CASSEVOY Nick's sister Cathy is the oldest daughter of John and Mary Cassevoy. and is the mother of four children - Vivian, Jerry_, Valerie and Vanessa Long. Cathy and her husband, Bill, make their home in Deltona. FL.
• NERONI, VIVIAN LONG - Vivian in the oldest child of Nick's sister, Cathy Cassevoy Long Lewis, and Roger Long. Vivian and her husband, Tony, are settled in their first home in Lyndonville, N.Y. with daughters Jennifer and Bethany.
• PIZZO, BONNIE CASSEVOY - Nick's sister Bonnie is the second daughter of Mary and John Cassevoy. She and her husband, Frank live in the Newark, Delaware area, and have one daughter. Erinn, who attends college nearby.
• RICH, ESSIE E. RICH - Nick's maternal Grandmother, Essie was a native of Cattaraugus, N.Y. and was married to Grampa Charles Herbert Rich for almost 70 years. They had one daughter, Nick's Mother. Mary E. Rich Cassevoy. and later moved to Rochester, N.Y. for a number of years. Essie lived from l883 - 1980.
• RICH, BLANCHE - Nick's Aunt Blanche was married to his Grampa Rich's brother, Claude; they lived in Bennington, Vt. Blanche lived from 1880 - 197?.
• THOMPSON, DEBORAH CASSEVOY The third daughter of Mary and John Cassevoy, Nick's sister Debbie and her husband, Don, live in Schaumburg, Illinois (Chicago area) with sons, Drake and Garret Carpenter
• VREELAND, OLA - Aunt Ola was married to Midge paternal Grandmother's brother Uncle Harry. They lived on Oneida Lake in Sylvan Beach, N.Y., and had two daughters Helen and Marilyn.
• WALLQUIST. NEIL - Along with her sister, Florence. Neil waa a friend of the Rich family for many years; she made her home in Youngstown, Ohio.

Definition

Cookery means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe and of Helen and of the Queen of Sheba. It means the knowledge of all herbs and fruits and balms and spices, and all that is healing and sweet in the fields and groves and savory in meats. It means carefulness and inventiveness and willingness and readiness of appliances. It means the economy of your grandmothers and the science of the modern chemist; it means much testing and no wasting, it means English thoroughness and French art and Arabian hospitality; and, in fine, it means that you are to be perfectly and always. ladies - loaf givers.
                                        .. Ruskin