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Playa

On 8/26/2015 7:10 AM, wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 10:26:00 AM UTC-7, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2015-08-25 1:13 PM, Kalmia wrote:
>>> My grands were all born in the 1800s, so you can well imagine that
>>> they knew how to cook and ate real food. Fortunately, the knowledge
>>> was passed onto my mother who was an excellent cook.
>>
>> As were mine. My maternal grandmother was the youngest of them, born in
>> 1900. They ate real food, but they had a much more limited diet than we
>> enjoy these days. My mother's father was a much better cook than her
>> mother. He was the one who prepared the holiday meals and he was the
>> one who did all the cooking. My other grandmother was a passable cook
>> but had an extremely limited repertoire. She had a weekly menu, by which
>> I mean that she cooked 7 different dinners. There was the Monday night
>> menu, the Tuesday night menu, the Wednesday night menu..... It was the
>> same thing every week.
>
> My mother's mother prided herself on staying up to date, so she was
> always clipping recipes from magazines and the daily paper. Winners
> she kept in her recipe file, with a short notation. But she usually
> cooked the good old favorites. Except for making jam in season, she
> had quit canning by the time we grandkids came around.
>
> When I was a kid, the weekly food section provided a week's worth of
> menus, with recipes for the trickier dishes. I wonder how many moms
> put their family's dietary fate in the hands of the food editor every
> week.
>
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