Archive for November, 2006

Vinegar Pie, Cat Eyes, and the Tales from Grandma’s Kitchen

By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG • Nov 1st, 2006 • Category: Digging

“Grandma, what am I?” I used to ask while bouncing about her culinary kingdom, the farmhouse kitchen, while Grandma multi-tasked, keeping the woodstove going and tossing a pinch of this and a dash of that into a big bowl.
Not who but what. I wanted to know our ethnicity.
“You’re a mess,” Grandma would say, her hazel-green eyes twinkling.



Hey, Buddy. Can You Spare a Red Stamp?

• Nov 1st, 2006 • Category: Yesterday

Besides conserving metal, paper, and rubber products, during World War II, people worldwide were expected to do their part on the home front through conserving food.
In America, beginning in 1942, families were issued coupon books containing stamps, both red and blue, that correlated to specific types of items.