“These early recipes were dominated by a remarkably vigorous community–the equivalent of today’s ‘power users’–with frequent contributions from readers such as Aunt Addie, Mollie and Bob the Sea Cook.”
-Amanda Hesser in “Recipe Redux: The Community Cookbook” in The New York Times Magazine (10/10/10)
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HAH! Mollie and Bob the Sea Cook!
He had two heads…
You know, it’s really no wonder newspapers are going out of business with this kind of confusion going on.
I collect community cookbooks and have some very, ahem, interesting recipes from the very early ones. It seems our ancestors consumed large quantities of lard and prunes. I recently came across a recipe for a meatless meatloaf made out of steamed carrots from a cookbook published in Clarkson during WWI. God help me, it sounded pretty good!
That meatless meatloaf with the carrots sounds very interesting:-]I wish you had included it!
The Wikipedia article about this is quite funny:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma