Memories of food

Memories of Food

No. Not foods that improve your memory, but the food you most fondly remember from the past.

When my husband was still working with his former company we traveled a great deal, Many cities in the US, Europe, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Puerto Rico and points north, south east and west.

We dined in many fine restaurants during our travels. Some of the best in the world.

But when I get nostalgic about food and crave something from the past it is not a dish like pressed duck from Tour d'Argent in Paris, or Caviar and Vodka from the restaurant of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong.

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Fancy restaurants of France , DC , NYC, ...No ...I want a pipping hot dish of chicken and dumplings made by my mother in law when she was still alive. Banana pudding and sweet potato pie by my Mother. Country vegetables. Pear preserves. Corn sticks. Frances and Virginia Tearoom hot turkey and egg bread

And one of my favorite restaurant memories is of the Frances and Virginia Tearoom in downtown Atlanta during a simplier time in a slower paced city.

"The Frances Virginia Tea Room became a landmark in early Atlanta, and by 1943 they were serving more than 2,000 meals. Diners celebrated the opening of "Gone with the Wind," mourned the death of President Roosevelt, and they watched the Fourth of July Parades from the Peachtree windows. In 1962 the owners toasted their retirement and closed the restaurant's doors. Millie Coleman took her memories and love for the restaurant and created this wonderful cookbook. Her Aunt Agnes, the dietician/home economist who planned the meals for the elegant Atlanta tea room, dusted her old recipe files off and painstakingly converted them to family sizes. While the focus is on the recipes, each chapter begins with a page of history or nostalgic memories.
This excerpt perhaps best describes the elegance of the tea room and the times:
"There were no written rules of behaviour, just years of admonitions from mothers and grandmothers. And for some reason, when you walked into the dining room, you immediately took pleasure in sitting properly, crossing your legs at the ankles, keeping one hand correctly in your lap"

I have the "Frances and Virginia Tearoom Cookbook" which is still in print but I could never duplicate the "yumminess" of the original dishes. Target has the cookbook if you want to check out the Target website and read about it.


What are some of your fondest memories of food?

Favorite products..what are yours?

What beauty or cleansing product can you not do without?

I adore Cetaphil Cleansing Gentle makeup remover or facial cleanser. It is great even for eye makeup and the few times I wear mascara.


Blistex lip balm (the one in the round pink tin) and Burt's Bees Cuticle Cream. Yummy for that ultra dry feeling. My nails are dry and brittle and this seems to help some. And the Burt's Bees Cream has a fresh lemon smell.


Premarin Vaginal Cream.---- (don't laugh)YEP!!! I use it on my face and have done so for at least 30 years. recommended by my former dermatologist as a night cream I do believe this has kept my 78 year old skin more wrinkle free than if I had done without it.And it feels good.

(Info from Drugstore.com)


"CETAPHIL® cleanser was formulated for dermatologists as a gentle, non-irritating cleanser for even the most sensitive skin. Unlike soap, CETAPHIL is completely non-alkaline, non-comedogenic, and fragrance free. Soothes and softens as it cleanses, helping the skin retain needed moisture. Use for face, hands, and the entire body." .


"Burt's Bees Cuticle Cream

This seasonal favorite from Burt's offers up a soothing blend of natural ingredients, including nourishing Vitamin E, for the intensive care of dry cuticles, brittle nails, and chapped, cracked fingertips"



"Blistex DCT (Daily Conditioning Treatment for Lips) combines moisturizers, vitamins and protectants to provide a daily maintenance regimen for your lips.

DCT keeps your lips in perfect conditions every day of the year, in all climates, through all activities.

Smooth & Supple Lips: DCT nurtures your lips with two proven moisturizers, Aloe Vera and Cocoa Butter, plus Vitamins A&E. DCT softens and smoothes the surface of lips to help them look and feel young. DCT helps to prevent and replenish moisture-starved cells that can occur from daily exposure to dry air and other environmental conditions."

Blog blackmail

Beards---- Oh MY

This is from "Word A Day" email for today. I hope you find it interesting. Check out the crazy beards on the link by clicking on the title of this post.





"Over the years we have featured weeks of words about words, we have had
words about birds, and now it's time for, well, words about beards.

Are bearded people irritating? While some find a beard on a man attractive,
it repels others. Like barbed wire, literally speaking. The words barb,
barber, rebarbative, and beard are derived from the same root: Latin barba
(beard). And though many bards have beards, there is no connection between
the two words.

Though most men have only a fleeting interest in pogonotrophy (growing of a
beard, from Greek pogon, beard + -trophy, nourishment or growth), growing
it now, shaving it when the fancy strikes, for some, beards are a serious
business. There's even a biannual championship event for the bearded:
http://worldbeardchampionships.com/

This week we'll see five words having to do with facial hair. They are pure
beard words as the week starts out, and like beards growing slender at the
bottom, as the week ends the connection becomes slender too.


sideburns (SYDE-burnz) plural noun

Hair grown on the sides of a man's face, when worn with an unbearded chin.

[After Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881), who served as a general in the
Union Army in the American Civil War, and who earned more recognition for his
side whiskers than for his military career. Eventually the term burnsides
morphed into sideburns as such a facial pattern was on the sides of a face.]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=sideburns

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

"Queensland paramedics claim they have been threatened with the sack
unless they shave off their beards, moustaches and sideburns."
Darrell Giles; Paramedics' Facial Hair
Threat; The Sunday Mail



If you want to subscribe (free) to Word a Day) here is the address

http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html


Be sure you click on the beards link:)

What American accent do you have?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The South   That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.
Philadelphia
The Midland
The Northeast
The Inland North
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

They pegged me right, however there are quite a few different Southern accents. Tennessee is different from Alabama and even Georgia where I live has several different regional accents.

Obama

Today it looks as if Barack Obama, is almost all set for the Democratic nomination. I had hoped to see a woman elected President of the United States in my lifetime but I guess it was not to be. Even though I was pulling for Hillary, I will vote for Obama in the general election instead.

I have read both of Obama's books and am now reading " Obama-From Promise To Power" by David Mendell,a reporter with the Chicago Tribune who covered Obama extensively during his campaign for the U.S. Senate. "From Promise To Power" reads like a novel. This extremely well written and interesting book fleshes out the candidate and is a fine companion to Obama's personal memoirs, "Dreams of My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope"

And from Amazon:

"Mendell tracks Obama's rise through the frustrations of community organizing and the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago politics to the rarefied, if no less brutal, world of the U.S. Senate. Mendell draws on interviews with Obama, his wife, family, friends, aides, and rivals, as well as his own extensive coverage since Obama's days in the Illinois Senate, to offer a nuanced, compelling look at a man of idealism and ambition intent on making history."

What kind of shoe am I?

You Are Bare Feet

You are a true free spirit, and you can't be tied down. Even wearing shoes can be a little too constraining for you at times! You are very comfortable in your own skin. You are one of the most real people around. You don't have anything to hide. Open and accepting, you are willing to discuss or entertain almost any topic. You are a very tolerant person. You are accepting and not judgmental. You should live: Somewhere warm You should work: At your own business, where you can set the rules

What Kind of Shoe Are You?