News & Information Louisiana about Library SBPH! Services for the from Blind and Physically Happy Holidays Happy HOTLINES Handicapped VOL. 3, No. 4 Winter 2003 SERVICES FOR THE Something’s Cooking @ Your Library BLIND & PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED (SBPH) Louisiana is a place where people State Library of Louisiana love to eat and food preparation is taken 701 North Fourth Street very seriously. It is a place where family Baton Rouge, LA 70802 recipes are treasured heirlooms passed from generation to generation and TELEPHONE NUMBERS where juries debate and select a Toll-Free: 800-543-4702 prizewinner from one hundred variations of Local: (225) 342-4944 jambalaya. The cookbooks listed here focus on the Fax: (225) 342-6817 techniques and creative expression of cooking. Braille Service: 800-453-4293 Grab a skillet, wok or iron pot and try a new recipe from one of the tempting titles. Book numbers EMAIL followed by an asterisk are available in digital files [email protected] from Web-Braille. Bon Appetite! [email protected] HOURS Classics & Basics Monday-Friday Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book 8:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. (RC 43582; BR 7276*) ELIGIBILITY Betty Crocker’s Cookbook: Everything You Need to Any Louisiana resident who is Know to Cook Today (RC 56070) unable to read or use standard print materials as a result of a Cooking Without Looking: Food Preparation temporary or permanent visual or Methods and Techniques for Visually Handicapped physical limitation is eligible to Homemakers by Esther Knudson Tipps (RC 52505; receive free library services. BR 134780*; LP 15742) LIBRARY SERVICES Le Cordon Bleu Classic French Cookbook Baton Rouge, LA 70821-0131 LA Rouge, Baton Recorded Books & Magazines (RC 42522; BR 10577*) P.O. Box 131 Box P.O. Braille Books & Magazines Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Physically and Blind the for Services BLIND OR HANDICAPPED OR BLIND Large Print Books The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer (RC 45254; State Library of Louisiana of Library State FREE MATTER FOR THE FOR MATTER FREE Descriptive Videos BR 14554*) 8 Famous Chefs Mash and Smash Cookbook: Fun and 14. Do you use CCTV? Staff Notes Cooking With Master Chefs by Julia Child Yummy Recipes Every Kid Can Make by Doug Loflin retires (BR 9586*) Marian Buck-Murray (BR 11630) 15. Do you have a DVD player? Doug Loflin “wound up”a long career with Greene on Greens by Bert Greene The Star Wars Cookbook: Wookie 16. Do you have a VCR player? the State Library of Louisiana when he (RC 21749) Cookies and Other Galactic Recipes by retired on December 1, 2003. Doug Robin Davis (BR 12243) 17. Do you use any other assistive worked in the Materials Unit of SBPH for In Julia’s Kitchen With Master Chefs by technology devices or programs? almost 19 years, handling mail and Julia Child (RC 40629) Step-by-Step Kid’s Cookbook edited by inspecting and rewinding tapes. His Better Homes & Gardens (RC 31482) Thank you! friendly manner and cheerful singing Jacques Pepin’s Simple and Healthy made him a favorite of all, and he will be Cooking by Jacques Pepin (RC 41529) sorely missed by his many friends. Quick & Easy James Beard’s Theory & Practice of Crock-it! By Barbara Murray (LP 15738) Good Cooking edited by Amy Pastan and Louisiana HOTLINES is published Peter Pastan (LP 4775) The Galley K.I.S.S. Cookbook by quarterly by the State Library of Corinne Kanter (LP 15811) Louisiana, Services for the Blind and The Martha Stewart Cookbook by Martha Holiday Closings Physically Handicapped (SBPH), P.O. Stewart (RC 42087) Large Print Cookbook: Simple, Easy-to- Box 131, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-0131. Read, East-to-Make, Family-Style The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver Christmas Day Recipes by M.G. Kunkel (LP 15814) Subscriptions are available in large print, (BR 13997*) December 25, 2003 Braille, or on audiocassette. All issues Quick and Easy Cook Book edited by are free. Anyone may receive a free Newman’s Own Cookbook compiled by Day after Christmas Sunset Books (RC 34752; BR 9069) large print subscription. To request a free Ursula Hotchner (LP 6600) December 26, 2003 large print subscription or to change your Weight Watchers Quick Meals current subscription to a different format, Pearl’s Kitchen: an Extraordinary New Year’s Day (RC 43229) please contact the library. Cookbook by Pearl Bailey (RC 8552; January 1, 2004 BR 10638) Woman’s Day Crockery Cuisine: Slow Day after New Year’s The announcement of products and Cooking Recipes for Family and January 2, 2004 services in this newsletter should not be Entertainment (LP 1059) considered an endorsement or For Kids Only Inauguration Day recommendation by SBPH. Products Cool As a Cucumber, Hot As a Pepper January 12, 2004 and services are listed free of charge for by Meredith S. Hughes (BR 12790*) Regional & Ethnic Foods the benefit of our readers. The library Caribbean Light: All of the Flavors of the cannot be held responsible for the Clueless in the Kitchen: a Cookbook for Islands Without All the Fat by Donna reliability of products or services Teens by Evelyn Raab (BR 11857*) Shields (BR 12246*) mentioned. The Fannie Farmer Junior Cookbook Chef John Folse’s Louisiana Sampler by edited by Joan Scobey (RC 55788; John Folse (RCL 164) BR 10991*) Emma K. Schroth Editor 2 7 1. Do you know how to use a computer? The Encyclopedia of Asian Food and Special Diets An amazing 57 readers completed the If the answer is no, please skip to Cooking by Jacki Passmore (RC 35386) 101 High Fiber Recipes by Corrine program, reading 1,316 books between question 9. Netzer (LP 8055) June 13 and August 11, 2003. All of The Food of Asia: Authentic Recipes by The After-50 Cookbook: a Treasury of these brilliant readers received a 2. Where do you use a computer? Kong Foong Ling (BR 13479*) Creative Recipes for 1 or 2, Retired fabulous “Footloose” tee shirt. Finally, at At Home At Work At School People or Those on Special Diets by the end of the program, a special drawing At a Library Other The Louisiana Crawfish Cookbook by Donna Hamilton (LP 1396) was held and eight summer readers each Bunny Jumonville (LP 3229) won a $50 United States Savings Bond. 3. Do you own your own computer? American Heart Association Cookbook Congratulations to all of our winners! Mexico, the Beautiful Cookbook: (RC 42131; LP 15785) 4. Do you have access to the Internet? Authentic Recipes From the Regions of “Footloose in Louisiana Libraries” was If yes, where do you access the Mexico by Susanna Palazuelos The Art of Cooking For the Diabetic by made possible through a grant from the Internet? (RC 34531) Mary Abbott Hess (RC 45565; Louisiana Library Foundation and from At Home At Work At School BR 11438*) the on-going charitable support of the At a Library Other A Native American Feast by Lucille Mrs. W. Carruth Jones Foundation for the Penner (RC 43740) Diabetic Cooking From Around the World Blind and Physically Handicapped. 5. Do you have an email address? by Vilma Liacouras Chantiles (RC 30204; Patout’s Cajun Home Cooking by Alex BR 8070*) Our theme for the 6. Do you use text enlarging software? Patout (BR 6798) 2004 Summer Fields of Greens: New Vegetarian Reading Program is 7. If yes, what brand do you use? The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book by Recipes From the Celebrated Greens “Buggy About Books” Gary Tipton (RC 33686) Restaurant by Annie Sommerville and we hope to see 8. Do you use a screen reading program (RC 39674) you there! (such as JAWS)? River Road Recipes compiled by Junior League of Baton Rouge (LP 1156) The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a 9. Do you read Braille? If no, please Better Body, Life and Spirit by Andrew Technology Survey skip to question 14. Sofi’s Aegean Kitchen: a Light Approach Weil and Rosie Daley (RC 54451; to Traditional Greek Home Cooking by LP 15741) The purpose of this survey is to 10. Do you use a refreshable Braille Sofi Konstantinides (BR 10556*) determine what type of assistive display? More From the Gluten-Free Gourmet by technology devices, if any, are currently Soul Food: Recipes and Reflections by Bette Hagman (RC 42079) being used by our readers. Assistive 11. Where do you use the refreshable Joyce White (BR 12364*) technology can be defined as any device Braille display? Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone by or tool that helps the user function at a At Home At Work At School The Welcome Table: African-American Deborah Madison (RC 46071) higher level. Your answers are important At a Library Other Heritage Cooking by Jessica Harris to us! Even if you do not currently use (RC 45197; BR 11307) What to Eat When You’re Expecting by any assistive technology, please 12. Do you use a Braille printer? Arlene Eisenberg (RC 41851; participate in our survey. BR 10401*) 13. If yes, where do you use a Braille To answer the survey questions, please printer? call SBPH toll-free at 1-800-543-4702 or At Home At Work At School at (225) 342-4945. At a Library Other 6 3 New Descriptive Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Scooby-Doo (DV 223) Braille Reader Are Leaders Videos (DV 214 ) A film version of the television 21st Annual Contest for Blind Youth Harry Potter attends Hogwarts cartoon. Scooby-Doo and friends 2003-2004 School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, investigate scary doings on Zomby A Beautiful Mind learns magic, and becomes a Island.