Food Friday: The Problems of Skinny Children Solved!

I love the title of today's cookbook, Food 'N Folklore. Really when you think about it, it's not just the food that's important in our family histories but also the stories about the food.As I was looking through this cookbook, I came to a section on home remedies. In an era before increased access to physicians, women's abilities to heal their families...

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Good Friday: Green Tomato Pie

I love it when a cookbook is more than just a cookbook. Today's Food Friday comes from Bellaire's Own Historical Cookbook. Bellaire Women's Civic Club, Bellaire Texas. 1969.This is the type of cookbook every community should publish, full of histories, vintage images and names. Oh and there are recipes, in fact the recipes are in a few chapters of...

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Food Friday: Lox Spread from Florida

I was pleasantly surprised this week when a package arrived with some community cookbooks sent by my friend and fellow genealogist Debbe Hagner, AG.One of the cookbooks she sent was this one with a title no one can resist, The Happy Cookers from Temple Ahavet Shalom Sisterhood, Palm Harbor Florida. You've got to love a cookbook with a sense...

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