Sometimes nothing suits so well as re-reading a beloved story. Lisa Kleypas has written so many good books in such wonderful series; I can recommend every one of them heartily. But this one is a special favorite, and as I luxuriate in a re-read, I realize others
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Jello salads containing all manner of oddities were quite the rage in the 1950s and 60s, but I didn’t realize they were popular before that. I’ve actually eaten a salad something like this as a kid, and I just may have to try it again to see
Read more →I have a fascination with the little details of history, bits of wisdom, glimpses of how life used to be at this or that point in time. Recently I was going through keepsakes from my grandmother and found this recipe book from 1928 that includes cooking
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