LEWISTON — For four years, from 2004 to 2008, the Sun Journal published a popular weekly column featuring recipes from readers’ favorite cooks.

Now, many of those tried-and-true recipes, originally published as part of the “Cook of  the Week” series, have been published in a cookbook,”Stirring it up in Maine.”

“Family members and friends told us about their favorite cooks. Sometimes a grandchild nominated a grandparent, a husband a wife and the guys at the fire station nominated a fellow firefighter, ” Executive Editor Rex Rhoades says in the introduction to the book.

The 200-plus page cookbook features time-tested recipes from central Maine, from appetizers, sauces and sides, to breads and breakfasts, soups, salads, main dishes and desserts.

“Some of the recipes have been handed down through generations. Some, no doubt, crossed oceans as families left their ancestral homelands for a fresh start in a new land. Others, we suspect, are of less exotic provenance, perhaps clipped from a long-forgotten magazine or cobbled together by trial and error,” Rhoades says.

The book was designed and produced by Sun Journal editors Ursula Albert, Susan Broadbent and Heather McCarthy.

Copies are available at many outlets where the Sun Journal is sold, at selected bookstores and through Sun Journal offices. Copies also may be purchased for $11.99 at www.sunjournal.com or on the Sun Journal’s Facebook page.

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