Cottage Kitchen Luncheons

Once upon a time there was a sweet stone house in a little park alongside the San Marcos River. It was decided it would be an ideal place to serve lunches and make some money to furnish the little house and to develop the park around it.

A group of friends began serving good food from their family recipes in this house now listed on the National Register and built up quite a following. For 20 years the Cottage Kitchen luncheons have continued to draw people from San Marcos and all over Texas on Fridays just to eat lunch in the historic little house furnished with primitive antiques.

From these luncheons several cookbooks resulted, and now a new version, Twenty Years in the Cottage Kitchen, has just been released. You may purchase Twenty Years in the Cottage Kitchen by sending $18.95 per copy plus $3.50 postage and tax to The Heritage Association of San Marcos, Inc., P.O. Box 1806, San Marcos, Texas 78667-1806.

The attractive house furnished with authentic primitive antiques is the setting each January for a Texas Arbor Day Ceremony. Each year the memory of a community leader is honored by the Heritage Association with the planting of a live oak tree in the River Walk Memorial Grove, a portion of the River Walk Park at the back of the House Museum. The ceremony concludes with a reception for family and guests in the Museum.