Kimberly Wilmot Voss, PhD

Associate Professor, UCF

Presented at the Florida Conference of Historians, Lakeland, 2015

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*Married to Gloria

Sparksman who edited

The Gasparilla

Cookbook

* Selling The Gasparilla Cookbook

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* Sold 7,800 books = 3 months

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* Visited for Gasparilla and toured

the Tampa area

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* Jackie Kennedy carries The

Gasparilla Cookbook

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• 1 cookbook = 4 bags of food for hungry children;

• 4 cookbooks = 23 books for an underprivileged kindergarten students

• 4 cookbooks = 1 “move-in” kit for a teenager who has aged out of foster care

• 10 cookbooks = 14 kids to enjoy a day at the Glazer Children’s Museum.

• 14 cookbooks = 10 hurricane preparedness kits

including 5 days of meals for Tampa’s homebound seniors