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Cookbook (noun)…a book containing recipes and other information about the preparation and cooking of food

Beginning with mimeographed pages and hand stapled, the Odessa Memorial Hospital Auxiliary published their first cookbook called “Over the Party Line”. Through the years, the Auxiliary continued to put together a total of nine different cookbooks of recipes contributed by citizens of Odessa. The most coveted (and out of print) one being the “green one.”

The auxiliary disbanded in 2014. Though many changes have taken place at the hospital since the disbanding of the Auxiliary,...