Fred Osmon doesn’t mind if someone kids him that the recipes in his latest cookbook are “to die for” since he’s donating the proceeds to the Chatham-Kent Hospice.
The longtime Chatham realtor’s 100-plus-page booklet of Canadian Christmas Cookie Recipes will be on sale for a six-week period beginning Nov. 4 at various locations throughout the community.
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Osmon said he gathered the recipes over the years from his own love of baking and from other people he’s met.
“Everybody’s got recipes from someone.”
The book costs $15, and Osmon said he will deliver them in Chatham and will drop them off outside of Chatham for an additional $5.
“I know from personal family experience that we need a hospice in Chatham and it’s my way of helping out,” he said. “There have been some wonderful large donations, but for those of us who don’t have those means, buying a cookbook is a way to donate what we can. It all adds up to getting the job done.”
A love of cooking and baking led Fred to publish three other cookbooks, the proceeds of which have been donated to charities including the Heart and Stroke and Diabetes associations, and the Chatham Goodfellows.
He is the author of a History of Minor Baseball, proceeds of which went to Chatham Minor Baseball last year, and has a number of other writing projects under way.
Books will be available at the Downtown Chatham Centre Nov. 14 at 10 a.m., the Active Lifestyle Centre on Dec. 3 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
He will be at the Chatham Library Dec. 17 from 6 p.m. to 6 p.m. and at the Wallaceburg Library Dec. 9 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
