The Odessa Record - Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!

ODESSA – Beginning with mimeographed pages that were 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 containing recipes contributed by citizens of Odessa. The most coveted (and out-of-print) one was the “green one.” The last cookbooks published by the Odessa Memorial Hospital Auxiliary are still available. The Staff of Life IV, the eighth cookbook, is a collection of new recipes and a few old favorites, complied by the coo...