Acknowledgments
There are many, many hardworking people at Costco and elsewhere who
have contributed to this book. We thank them all. In particular we want to
thank the following Costco employees: Joel Benoliel, Rossie Cruz, Susan Detlor,
Pennie Clarke Ianiciello, Chris Eiche, Jodi Ellis, Sheri Flies, Dennis Knapp,
Jim Klauer, Stephanie Gardner, Ginnie Roeglin, Ronda Miller, Tim Rose,
Anita Thompson and Wendi Wamboldt. In response to a request in The
Costco Connection, Costco’s monthly magazine for members, we received
more than 1,800 recipes and tips from members. We thank you all.
Submissions were sorted into food categories and then 160 were selected for
testing by a panel of Costco members. We want to thank the following testers
who had the enviable but demanding task of narrowing the selections to the
48 recipes that received the “Tested and Approved” stamp to appear in the
book: Janice Baroni, Glen and Jane Brookman, Heather Carey, Linda Carey,
Maryjo Corrado, Lois Dalzell, Allison Doane, Dale Fine, Myra Hanover,
Helen Kearny, Timiny Keegen, Pat Killingsworth, Jane Klein-Shucklin, Diane
Larson, Hallie Larson, Jackie Majera, Jane Simpson, Steve Trump, Pat and Gary
Volchok, Gale Wergeland, Chris and Walt Zabriskie. We want to especially
thank these employees of the vendors and suppliers who took part in the creation of the book: at Iridio Photography, Seattle, photographers Darren
Emmens, Devin Seferos and Chris McArthur, set stylist Michelle Keefler and
food stylist assistant Christy Nordstrom, account coordinator Traci Joy; at
PressReady Imaging, Seattle, Mike Tandy; at Dai Nippon Printing, Kosuke
Tago; at AMS book distributors, Susan Latham, Adam Zoldan. We thank the
following people for the loan of props used in our food photographs: Jan
Block, Linda Carey, Myra Hanover, Helen Kearney, Jane Simpson, Chris
Zabriskie. We also wish to thank Senior Rabbi James L. Mirel of Temple
B’nai Torah, Bellevue, Washington, for advice on the Hanukkah chapter.
