WHY ME, WHY NOW, AND WHY, OF ALL PLACES, HERE?

I shared the produce aisle with two college girls not long ago. As they pondered their options for supper, it was pretty obvious that neither had spent much of any time in a kitchen.

"How about potato salad?"

"You have to cook eggs, and that takes forever!"

The mother in me took over and explained that the eggs were simple and would be done long before the potatoes were cooked. As I left them with an explanation of the process to mull, I did my own mulling on how little time my generation of working women had spent teaching our own children what our mothers spent many hours teaching us. And so, in an effort to rectify mea culpa the purpose of this blog will be to pass on useful bits and pieces of the education many in my children's generation either ignored or were cheated out of. t

There has been a book on the back burner of my brain with similar purpose for many years, and perhaps I can coax feedback from those who find this blog to assist in making that book more useful. At one time there was a wonderful little book (more like a thick pamphlet) entitled "The Impoverished Student's Book of Eatery, Drinkery, and Housekeepery." During the first years of life as a married college student, I wore the thing completely out. Long since out of print, I'd forgotten about it for years until a customer of mine mentioned that she, too, had had a copy which she loved. It explained to the uninitiated the mysteries of casseroles, chicken, bricks and boards bookcases and beer making. I suspect that beer making is beyond the scope of this blog (although I've tried my hand at wine making a time or two), but the process of putting food on the table, clean clothes in the closet, and money in the bank is as fresh and timeless as it was 45 years ago.