featuring My Mother’s Cookbooks Buckwheat cake, traditional Northern Appalachian / Acadian fare. After thousands of years of having wheat in their diet, you might think early European settlers to North America expected that to continue in their new home, but they didn’t. Wheat, they knew requires weather and soil conditions not available everywhere, so theyContinue reading “Buckwheat & River Rocks…”
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Gratitude Season, Warm Spices and War
Mable Hunter Stewart’s war effort and her fruit cake. Harvest, Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day draws us toward feeling gratitude for nature’s bounty, for the effort, and sacrifice of others. Fall is a sort of Gratitude season that comes scented with warm spices. This guest blog post recalls a time when cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove wereContinue reading “Gratitude Season, Warm Spices and War”
Gratitude Season, Warm Spices and War
Mable Hunter Stewart’s war effort and her fruit cake. The approaching harvest, Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day draws us toward feeling gratitude for nature’s bounty, for the effort, and sacrifice of others. Fall is a sort of Gratitude season that comes scented with warm spices. This guest blog post recalls a time when cinnamon, nutmeg, andContinue reading “Gratitude Season, Warm Spices and War”
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