Adam at age 15 with some camp cooking equipment from the 1950s. People in the U.S. today would likely be extremely squeamish about eating food prepared with these. When it comes to food, I don’t really like “top-ten” or “top-one-hundred” or any other kind of similar lists. Those lists are very dependant on the taste […]
Category: Cookbooks
Recipe: Cherry Chili Chicken, and Zack’s 27th Birthday
A serving of Cherry Chili Chicken from the book Cooking Jewish, plated on a bed of buttered white rice. Click on any of the images in this post for larger versions. Recently Mary and I have become very interested in what might seem an odd combination of cross-cultural holiday celebrations. A few years ago one of the Toledo […]
Original Recipe: Pepperidge Farm Sage & Onion Stuffing
When I picked up Margaret Rudkin’s autobiographical “Pepperidge Farm Cookbook” from 1963 at an antique shop back in March, it was with hopes of finding some of the company’s original recipes. Mrs. Rudkin, it turns out, did not disappoint. My maternal grandmother used to make a seriously-good sage & onion stuffing. Grandma Liske probably did as […]
Margaret Rudkin’s 1963 Pepperidge Farm Cookbook
I tried using a smaller pic of this cookbook, but it just didn’t give enough detail of the great cover art. Back on March 27th I posted quite a few photos from a couple long walks Mary and I had taken the day before in the Waterville and Grand Rapids areas of Ohio along US-24 and […]