Find your favorite Kentucky recipes with the help of two classic Kentucky cookbooks from the Junior League of Louisville!
Award-winning Splendor in the Bluegrass
The Junior League of Louisville's newest cookbook, Splendor in the Bluegrass, features over 230 delicious recipes submitted by JLL members, their family and friends, and local chefs and restaurants. The cookbook includes cooking and entertainment tips and facts, a wine guide, beautiful pictures depicting Kentucky's treasures from noted local photographers, and excerpts from well-known Kentucky authors such as Dr. Thomas Clark, Sena Jeter Naslund, Sarah Fritschner, Bobbie Ann Mason, Camille Glenn, Guy Davenport, Wendell Berry, Frederick Smock, and Richard Taylor.
Splendor in the Bluegrass was designed by Julius Friedman and includes Kentucky scenic photography by Dan Dry and color food photography of recipes in the cookbook. Splendor in the Bluegrass received a coveted Regional Tabasco Award. Brown-Forman Corporation was the exclusive corporate sponsor. This cookbook has 230 recipes in a 272-page hard cover bound book and includes recipes from these local chefs and restaurants: Kathy Cary, Lilly's; John Castro, Winston's at Sullivan College; Agostino Gabriele, Vincenzo's; Jim Gerhardt, The Oakroom at The Seelbach Hilton; Jim McKinney, Club Grotto; Lynn Winter, Lynn's Paradise Café; and Anoosh Shariat, Shariat's.
$29.95 Purchase a Copy of Splendor in the Bluegrass online Cordon Bluegrass is back!!! Cordon Bluegrass: Blue Ribbon Recipes from Kentucky, is our 2nd cookbook, originally published in 1988, and we've reprinted 1,000 copies after being sold out for over five years. The reprint features a commemorative letter from the Mayor of Louisville, Jerry Abramson. The immensely popular cookbook consists of 291 recipes, including a Derby section (6 menus); appetizers and beverages (45 recipes); soups & salads (55 recipes); entrees (60 recipes); vegetables (45 recipes); bread, eggs, cheese, pasta & rice (36 recipes); and desserts (45 recipes). Most of these recipes were submitted by Junior League of Louisville members. Anything you could possibly want for Derby entertaining is included, as exemplified by the following Derby menus: Derby Eve Formal Dinner Recipes also available for Derby Celebration and Derby Day Clubhouse Fare plus more than 200 other recipes submitted by Junior League of Louisville members and local chefs. $24.99 Click here to learn more about Cordon Bluegrass and order your copy today. The Junior League of Louisville returns 100% of the proceeds from JLL cookbooks and JLL fundraisers Hollydays and Two of a Kind to the community through community projects and training. The success of JLL cookbooks has funded major community projects in Louisville, including those at Home of the Innocents, Cabbage Patch Settlement House, Portland Pride, Interactive Art Gallery at the JB Speed Museum, the Family Place and more. You'll enjoy your JLL cookbooks for years to come for both their wonderful recipes, and the wonderful tradition of community impact they represent. Plans are underway for a fourth cookbook, Bluegrass Gatherings, continuing the tradition of excellence that the Junior League of Louisville has established over the decades. 
Derby Day Breakfast
Mint Juleps
Strawberries and Champagne
Derby Cheese Grits
Eggs Derby
Fried Kentucky Ham with Red-eyed Gravy
Bourbon Pecan Bread
Chocolate Bourbon Bars
Beaten Biscuits
Amaretto Fruit Dip with Pineapple & Strawberries
Plantation Tea
Hot Cheese Triangles
Strawberry and Feta Cheese Salad
Company Asparagus
Talbott Tavern Gourmet Chicken
Best Rolls
Derby Souffle
Fresh Strawberries with Powdered Sugar
Ringer (bourbon beverage)
