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That would be why I do not DO formal sit-down dinners... concert or no. LOL I cannot even imagine having sufficient place settings, even unmatched, for more than 12. And I am betting in her day you couldn't just go down to the rent-a-center and get extras either.
I agree with you on this! At my place if we had 38 people over it would have to be Pizza and paper plates.
When I was but a wee lad, each of my grandmothers would have huge family suppers. Cousins would come from 'who-knows-where' and each of my grandmothers would cook a dozen courses and run ragged doing it. Never allowing anyone else to get in her way.
They had both been raised in families with over a dozen siblings, gone into arranged marriages and began having their own babies right before the depression.
Serving tonnes of relatives, piles of food was their way of life.
oh, no that's just me! Anyway, I spent 3 months in Washington on Whidbey Island in my early 20s helping my best friend and her Navy husband settle in. Truth be told, I fell in love with it and didn't want to come back to Texas, so my trip got extended - several times!
I learned up there that they had no earthly clue what a "Chicken Fried Steak" is. And ask for tea - of course, it's hot. Cuisine across the country does vary considerably. So, those of you have some experience in other states, what am I likely to find drastically different when I order food in our new hometown?
El, I found a restaurant in ME that does chicken fried steak, but they call it "country fried". It's called "Cervesa Southwestern Restaurant" in Newport, about 20 miles west of Bangor. We ate there tonight, it was pretty good.
I have that site bookmarked; the shrimp chowdah recipe sounds wonderful. I want to make it with Gulf of Maine shrimp not the headless previously frozen ones for sale in Albertson's market out here.
The recipes look wonderful, and then there are more sites to explore!!!! Thanks for the happy hours that fortells.
Speaking of food...I've found my great aunt's cookbook, hand-written from the 1920s/30s. She lived on the Cutler road that goes around Holmes Bay, I don't think she ever traveled any further than Ellsworth in her whole life. Didn't even get indoor plumbing until the '70s.
I'm thinking of transcribing it and publishing it. I wonder if there would be any interest in something like that?
Zymer, I think there would be great interest in this cookbook if you had it published. I love old cookbooks, in fact have bought and sold a bunch on a particular auction site. There are many cookbook collectors out there (more than you'd think) and they seem to love Maine cookbooks. There are a lot of comfort-type regional foods from Maine (in my mind, anyway).
El- thanks for reviving this thread for us Newbies and foodies!
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