I’m not much of a Christmas guy – about the warmest feelings I get at Christmas time center around the traditional foods of the season – and so, as I began once again to comb through more of my collection of community fundraiser cookbooks, I thought how nice it’d be to find [...]
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America’s Food Secrets #9 – Hutzelbrod
Posted in America's Food Secrets, Food, tagged America's Food Secrets, Before The Blessing, fruit bread, fruitcake, Fruitcake is Forever, Hutzelbrod, Hutzelbrot, Russell Baker on December 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
America’s Food Secrets #8, Vermont Feather Beds
Posted in America's Food Secrets, baking, tagged America's Food Secrets, Edmund Dulac, feather beds, sourdough batter muffins, The Federated Women's Clubs of America, Vermont Feather Beds, yeasted batter muffins on November 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
There were two things that my sister and I liked about going to our grandmother’s house in Delaware – and they may have been the only things we liked about it – one was the fact my Gramma Warren (I never remember hearing her first name, my mother simply called her, Mom, or to us, [...]
America’s Food Secrets #7, Binghamton, New York
Posted in America's Food Secrets, Food, tagged America's Food Secrets, Binghamton New York, Favorite Recipes - St. Mary of the Assumption, fresh tomato pasta dish, Italian immigrants, Pasta a la Caprese, the valley of opportunity on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This current round of America’s Food Secrets has immersed me in mediocrity for all too long. It is amazing how poorly written and edited are many of these community fund raiser cookbooks which are the subject texts of our project – as they say, “you’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs, if you [...]
America’s Food Secrets #6, Ponte Vedre, Florida
Posted in America's Food Secrets, Food, baking, tagged America's Food Secrets, community fundraiser cookbooks, desserts, key lime pie, condensed milk, graham cracker crust, limons, salmonella, food culture of America, Florida Keys on October 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The process of finding candidates for my project, America’s Food Secrets, is both fun and time consuming – the fun part is reading scads of old recipes – some are hilarious, some are horrid, but they’re always enlightening – and occasionally, you uncover a true gem.
Recently, I was having difficulty grinding through the many mediocre [...]
America’s Food Secrets – White Trash Cooking
Posted in America's Food Secrets, Braising, Food, tagged America's Food Secrets, Earnest Matthew Mickler, Harper Lee, Jonathan Williams, recipe, stewed cabbage, The Jargon Society, white trash, White Trash Cooking on September 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I never remember thinking that my father was a fool – in my mind is an image of a simple man whose wisdom went beyond his education and status in life – and I took to heart many of the things he said to me. He once said – upon hearing me repeat a Polish [...]
