Category Archives: America's Food Secrets

America’s Food Secrets – Even Hear of Migas?

Recently, I found myself going through the Texas section of my old community fundraiser cookbooks for an idea for a new post in the ‘America’s Food Secrets’ series – it’s been awhile since I’ve done one, and I wanted it … Continue reading

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The Old Ways

We bloggers tend to be an undisciplined lot.  Not that I’m against that – to me, undisciplined is an art form, and one I treasure. I’m just making an observation. I’ll give you a ‘for instance’ – a few years … Continue reading

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Buttermilk, America’s (almost) Lost Fermented Treasure

Before I leave these creatures behind for a bit – or bore you all to death – I have to get one more “microbe” post out of my system.  I’m talking about buttermilk, and hereabouts it’s another one of our … Continue reading

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America’s Food Secrets #9 – Hutzelbrod

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 … Continue reading

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America’s Food Secrets #8, Vermont Feather Beds

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 … Continue reading

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