Deirdre Scaggs and Andrew McGraw celebrate the paperback release of their book, The Historic Kentucky Kitchen: Traditional Recipes for Today’s Cook, at Morris Book Shop on Sunday, February 28 at 2 pm.

Deirdre Scaggs is associate dean of the UK Libraries Special Collections; Andrew McGraw is sous chef at County Club.

“This book assembles more than one hundred dishes from nineteenth- and twentieth-century Kentucky cooks. The authors provide tips and suggest ingredient substitutions as an aid to the contemporary chef, and the book is accented with vintage photographs and flavorful anecdotes and descriptions.The Historic Kentucky Kitchen is a novel and tasty way to experience the history of the Bluegrass State.”