Comments on: Sheesh http://rightwingnation.com/2007/06/27/sheesh-3/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:34:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: rory @ parentalcation http://rightwingnation.com/2007/06/27/sheesh-3/#comment-75058 rory @ parentalcation Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:15:54 +0000 http://rightwingnation.com/2007/06/27/sheesh-3/#comment-75058 I am not at all what you would consider a good cook, but I have found the best way to get decent local recipes here in the south is at church potlucks. My church has several a year, and people will break out their old family recipes and bring some original recipes. We have been collecting all the recipes that we can, though they are usually incomplete and not very descriptive. I am not at all what you would consider a good cook, but I have found the best way to get decent local recipes here in the south is at church potlucks. My church has several a year, and people will break out their old family recipes and bring some original recipes. We have been collecting all the recipes that we can, though they are usually incomplete and not very descriptive.

]]> By: ricki http://rightwingnation.com/2007/06/27/sheesh-3/#comment-75049 ricki Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:44:24 +0000 http://rightwingnation.com/2007/06/27/sheesh-3/#comment-75049 I wonder if the dearth of real regional cookbooks is a more recent thing - if there's some kind of a celebrity mentality at work (as in, "Let's get the chefs of the popular restaurants to contribute recipes," rather than - and I would argue the more interesting option - interviewing the octagenarians who have lived there all their lives and asking them to contribute). It might also have something to do with a desire to look cosmopolitan? Or maybe in some cases the health-mania has taken over, and recipes for fried chicken replaced by ones for baked tofu strips? I love old cookbooks and always look for them when I'm out antiquing. I particularly love the ones with 'wrinkles for the cook' (or whatever they may call them) where there are instructions on how to make soap, or prevent a horse from getting worms, or whatever. It's history that never makes the textbooks, a little slice of how people lived. I wonder if the dearth of real regional cookbooks is a more recent thing - if there’s some kind of a celebrity mentality at work (as in, “Let’s get the chefs of the popular restaurants to contribute recipes,” rather than - and I would argue the more interesting option - interviewing the octagenarians who have lived there all their lives and asking them to contribute).

It might also have something to do with a desire to look cosmopolitan? Or maybe in some cases the health-mania has taken over, and recipes for fried chicken replaced by ones for baked tofu strips?

I love old cookbooks and always look for them when I’m out antiquing. I particularly love the ones with ‘wrinkles for the cook’ (or whatever they may call them) where there are instructions on how to make soap, or prevent a horse from getting worms, or whatever. It’s history that never makes the textbooks, a little slice of how people lived.

]]> By: Matthew K. Tabor http://rightwingnation.com/2007/06/27/sheesh-3/#comment-75018 Matthew K. Tabor Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:43:14 +0000 http://rightwingnation.com/2007/06/27/sheesh-3/#comment-75018 Do you ever cook anything out of the Foxfire books? Do you ever cook anything out of the Foxfire books?

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