ADAMS â The New York Times number-one best-selling non-fiction book this week is Bill Gates How to Avoid A Climate Disaster, â unless you re in Adams. The current best-selling book here is a reprint of a Polish cookbook.
The original cookbook, Favorite Recipes Jubilee Cookbook, was published in 1977, marking the 75th anniversary of St. Stanislaus Kostka parish. Some 2,800 copies of the cookbook were sold, raising $6,000 for the church. The effort to compile the cookbook was led by Amelia Millie Kruzel, along with the members of the St. Stanislaus Rosary Sodality. People were pestering me; there were so many people asking me to reprint it, said Eugene Michalenko, owner of Adams Specialty and Printing Co., whose father, Ignatius, had printed the original cookbook. They had had an original copy of the book and lost it; their book was a mess with food stains on their favorite recipes; it was being held together with a rubber band and there were pages falling out