Recipes

Have some hard green tomatoes hanging onto those ugly, withering tomato vines you nurtured for so many months? Several readers have asked me for a fried green tomatoes recipe, so here is the ultimate.  Remember Fannie Flagg and her book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café? Flagg is an actress and comedienne who [...]

From The White House Cookbook of 1887 during President Grover Cleveland’s first term. He married Frances Folsom on June 2, 1886, the first marriage of a president to take place in The White House. Cleveland was her father’s law partner before the latter was killed in an accident. Cleveland became Frances’ guardian whom she had [...]

Dozens of them. Ours got died, but not dyed. While we had tie-dye dye, California rains would have cinched the ‘60s image if local birds didn’t eat out all the centers. A person can only eat so many egg salad sandwiches. Here is a slightly hilarious recipe from the 1944 edition of The Good Housekeeping [...]

          Martha and George Washington had an elegant, well planned kitchen and fruit garden at their home in Mt. Vernon, Virginia.           While Martha Washington’s cook book and “rules” made her famous, the book was actually written by Frances Parke Custis, the mother of Martha Washington’s first husband, Col. Daniel Parke Custis.           The original was [...]