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Memories of the Heart: Comfort Food
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This 30-page series of articles by freelance writer and published author Toni Leland takes a look back at the food that shaped a nation and the traditions that endure to this day.
Comfort food is many things to many people, always different, but always the same. Interesting facts about food history are combined with the thoughts and memories of the author's own life with comfort food, and supported by over two dozen family recipes that have stood the test of time.
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Toni Leland
Toni Leland has been writing for over 25 years. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, and freelance for several magazines, a gardening website, and one newspaper. She is a professional editor and photographer. In her spare time, loves gardening, cooking (and eating!), reading, travel, horses, and cats. Throughout her life, her greatest love has been horses. From riding them as a young girl, to breeding and raising Arabians and Morgans as an adult, to writing about them as a passion - these wonderful creatures filled her life and her stories. Toni has written other genres as the mood strikes her, but usually returns to her equine writing roots.
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Memories of the Heart - Toni Leland
Memories of the Heart: Comfort Food
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Toni Leland
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Copyright 2013 Toni Leland
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Comfort Food: food prepared in a traditional style having a usually nostalgic or sentimental appeal (Merriam-Webster)
This series of articles by freelance writer and published author Toni Leland takes a look back at the food that shaped a nation and the traditions that endure to this day. Comfort food is many things to many people, always different, but always the same. What follows are thoughts and memories of the author's own life with comfort food, supported by many family recipes that have stood the test of time.
CONTENTS
Cooking With Mom: A nostalgic look at true comfort food
A Taste of Heaven
Ladies, Start Your Ovens: the appeal of social cookbooks
Decorate Your Thanksgiving Feast with the colors of Autumn
Traditions Across the Nation
Resources on Comfort Food
About the Author
Cooking With Mom
A nostalgic look at true comfort food
NOT A WEEK GOES BY that I don’t find myself in the kitchen with my mother. Mind you, she hasn’t been with us for many years now, but she still influences the food of my heart. Two of her food-stained, well-thumbed cookbooks sit amongst my own modern volumes. My pies unfold beneath the satiny sheen of her wooden rolling pin. Her cast-iron skillet still serves up melt-in-your-mouth pot roast and Swiss steak.
She taught me everything I needed to know in the kitchen, during an era when women loved to cook and kept their families well-fed. She taught me how not to boil an egg that rivaled Silly Putty®, the secrets to flaky, golden pie crust that didn’t come from the freezer case, and how to make gravy that wouldn’t do double-duty as wallpaper paste. She introduced me to interesting flavor combinations, and the fun of trying something new. She adored cream and butter, and used them lavishly in her cooking. Her favorite
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