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| Aunt Clemys Farm Girl |
Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 8:14:51 PM
Laurie's Colwin's "More Home Cooking" is a must read. Laurie wrote part memoir, part cookbook, and part one cook talking to another about the pleases of discovering, eating, and sharing simple food.
I trade books and magazines with friends and co workers on a weekly basis and keep the local library interlibrary loan going full time.
Are there sisters out there who read cookbooks as much as fiction / nonfiction titles? Or check out the flea markets first for the cookbooks being offered?
Aunt Clemy's Farm Girl
Kansas to Massachusetts
Farm Girl Number 300
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 1:11:37 PM
LINDA,
I JUST TYPED IN ON GOOGLE "SUNBEAN ADVERTIZING SIGN" lots of info came up. Maybe you can find your sign there.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 1:04:09 PM
Linda,
HOW NICE OF YOU!!!! Yes I have a few old advertising tins.Believe me if I had the room I would be bringing home all kinds of stuff. I'm trying to think what that sunbeam door thing looks like. I can see the little girl and the bread. But don't get the door part.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
| Aunt Clemys Farm Girl |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 12:32:42 PM
Nancy --- If I ever find a recipe box of handwritten recipes or a bundle tied up during one of the antiquing jaunts, it's your's. 
Great blog. Maybe someday I will attempt creating one.
It was interesting to see your collections --- especially the cookbooks. Do you collect items to go along with the cookbooks as cheese boxes, tins, vintage boxes or store displays?
I have looked for years for one of the old Sunbeam bread door "push' signs. Found one while on Cape Cod but it was still in use for the store. Weather beaten, smooth from all the hands pushing the door open, but still a great sign.
Like your bottles in the window, too. You have quite a talent for display.
Aunt Clemys Farm Girl
Farm Girl #300
Kansas to Massachusetts |
| Sandra K. Licher |
Posted - Aug 11 2008 : 4:43:21 PM
Oh...Karin....I do beleive we are kindred souls! I love staying home and I have nver had enough bookshelves! I went through my cookbook section and found several great ones for tonight...My Ball Canning one for sure...I have stuff sitting on my kitchen counters now! But I have to watch the Olympics tonight so while watching I'll look through my "harvest" books and see what I come up with!
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
Farmgirl Sister #226 |
| electricdunce |
Posted - Aug 11 2008 : 12:34:25 PM
I too love to read cookbooks, and the ones you mention sound great. I may have to check on Amazon too...There is nothing more fun that a cookbook with stories, and pictures. I'm a real homebody, and I really love my books. There are never enough bookshelves...
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
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| Sandra K. Licher |
Posted - Aug 11 2008 : 12:04:12 PM
Oh...P.S. Nancy...good to see you online...I was getting worried! Love the bottles in your window! Hope you got my emails...
Also...Linda...thanks for the Evelyn Birkby titles...I lived in Iowa for 22 years and never heard of her and I lived out in the country so it would be neat if I could find her books again!
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
Farmgirl Sister #226 |
| Sandra K. Licher |
Posted - Aug 11 2008 : 11:37:45 AM
Hey gals....thanks for all the cookbook titles....since I read Barabara Kingsolver's book about local food sources I am trying to buy local and therefore eat local which does not include any of the fancy and exotic ingredients a lot of todays recipes/cookbooks ask for so I am going to be on the lookout for some of the older and more local, homecooking type cookbooks. I will probably order a few of those mentioned and I too READ cookbooks like a novel! Has anyone read Jan Karon's Cookbook...she's the author of the Mitford Series. I looked at it at the library and it looked wonderful and not too exotic at all. I might have to order that one too...oh..I do love books of just about any kind really....so sad...I can never be wealthy because of it...well...wealthy as in hard, cold cash....I DO have a wealth of books though!
Linda....I used to live in a house that had a butlers pantry and maids quarters....cool old house...wish I still had it! It was a keeper but it was in a BAD neighborhood that was getting worse so we gave it up in favor of living...we were robbed 3 too many times! LOL! Ours was a Dutch Colonial. What great old houses though, huh! My kids have great memories of out times there too except of course for the robberies of which we were at home for! AHHHHH!!!!
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Aug 11 2008 : 10:53:00 AM
Linda,
I'll post a picture of the new books on my site when I get them. They sound like a fun read.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
| Aunt Clemys Farm Girl |
Posted - Aug 11 2008 : 10:00:30 AM
Nancy Jo,
You are in for a treat!
'Glad you found Mrs. Birkby's books on Amazon. Another cookbook you may enjoy is Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House or any of the Marcia Adams three Amish series. Another favorite is The Amish Cook: Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family by Elizabeth Coblentz.
Do you have a few title to recommend? I am always on the look out for a good cookbook to read.
Aunt Clemys Farm Girl
Farm Girl #300
Kansas to Massachusetts |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Aug 08 2008 : 10:28:29 AM
Linda,
Thanks for the recommendation. I ordered two of Mrs.Birkby's books used on amazon. They look like a fun and interesting read.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
| Aunt Clemys Farm Girl |
Posted - Aug 08 2008 : 08:55:32 AM
Glad to hear you are cookbook reading fans, Nigella and Dawn. There is nothing better than a good reading session that inspires you.
Another great cookbook with Farm Girl attitude is "Up A Country Road" by Evelyn Birkby. I have read this book dozens of times.
From a fellow Evelyn Birkby fan review :
"Mrs. Birkby was one of the 'radio homemakers' who broadcast recipes, tips and news to Iowa's rural housewives as well as writing a long-lived newspaper column. Needless to say, after decades she had a very rich collection of recipes and local history to share. This she has done in a book that is very well organized, easy to read, and involves the reader. Having never read her column, I can assume this style is what endeared the author to generations of Iowans."
"This book focuses mainly on the years Mrs. Birkby spent with her husband starting and maintaining an Iowa farm for 10 years following WW II. It is broken up into chapters on topics such as 'Grocery', 'Milking', 'Stoves', etc. Recipes in each chapter follow the narration."
Who are some of your favorite cookbook authors and types of cookbooks?
The house I live in was built in 1929 --- with an old fashioned butler's pantry / built in china cabinet. The drawers, which were to be used for linens, are full of cookbook pamphlets that farm women wrote from the 30's through the 60's. These are a treasure box to sort through on rainy days or when the snow is piling up. Always a recipe to try out --- or a helpful household hint that is time honored. The best are the "Cook Of The Week" series by local communities and from church women's groups.
Aunt Clemys Farm Girl
Farm Girl #300
Kansas to Massachusetts |
| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Aug 07 2008 : 7:27:37 PM
I read cookbooks the same way I do novels! I'm glad to hear I'm not the only who does this. I have quite a collection of cookbooks too. I try to do as many recipes as possible in each book I get before moving on to the next one. The big challenge for me is trying to remember which book has the recipe I want in it!
Dawn in Il |
| Nigella |
Posted - Aug 07 2008 : 11:51:39 AM
Linda, I am a collector of cookbooks and I love to read them from cover to cover too! I can't wait to check out this cookbook thanks!
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If the ways is long
Let your heart be strong
Keep right on 'round the bend
Though you're tired and weary
Still journey on to your happy abode
Where all that you love
And are dreaming of
Will be there at the end of the road.
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