Today on the farm, we built another bookcase and promptly filled it with some of the many books which have been lining the floor of our bedroom. Many thanks to suburb assistant, Alexander. (I'm still trying to figure out how to sleep on the opposite side of the bed.)
This evening, Ari and I had a wonderful Thai dinner with our friend, Lisa. We also went to a great used bookshop in Redmond, MacDonalds. It was having a sale on cookbooks. Lisa and I stocked up!(See below) I also found a copy of a back-to-farm memoir and of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.
This week's book choices are 5 in a series of vintage cooking books, thin little volumes, by Barbara Swell. The books are published by Native Ground, which also has books and recordings of ol' time music and lore. The cookbooks have a cornucopia of interesting recipes such as Thomas Jefferson's Spoonbread, Fairy Cookies, Fried Green Tomatoes, Sweet Potato Dumplings, Cranberry Pot Roast, Ethels' Nice Tomato Cookies, Volcano Potatoes, and Foods That Wiggle. In addition, these little gems have many historical tidbits, food poems, farm humor, vintage photos, household hints, food proverbs & superstitions, weather lore, folk remedies, good luck rhymes, and pioneer etiquette. The titles I picked up are: 1) Log Cabin Cooking, 2) Secrets of the Great Old-Timey Cooks, 3) Take Two & Butter 'Em While They're Hot!, 4) Old-Time Farmhouse Cooking, and 5) Mama's in the Kitchen: Weird & Wonderful Home Cooking 1900-1950.
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