interlude: goat cheese cheesecake

[luckywandercook]

The pic is a crappy shot of my Mom's 1964 edition of her first cookbook ever. Like me and my sister, Mom didn't know a thing about cooking until she hit her late twenties/early thirties, but rallied quickly with a little practice. This cookbook has some of the most perfect pseudo-realistic, skinny-line era cartoons I've ever seen, and probably set

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[aimgrrrl]

ok I forget sometimes that you are the only person I know who's pretty much exactly my age. And then you go and post a picture of the cookbook I grew up with. My mom still has it. In fact, I compare every potential purchase cookbook against it. I love that it doesn't use pre-packaged stuff as standard recipe ingredients. Every cookbook I've found that's published currently uses boxed, bagged and canned stuff as a matter of course. Because obviously everyone has a pouch of taco seasoning in their cupboard and would rather use that than the actual spices...

CHILDCRAFT! I'd totally forgotten about Childcraft. My best memories are the "experiments" and activities we did. Making lemonade stand from their instructions, etc. And then when a thunderstorm scared me as a little one, my parents sitting me down and reading me the entry on how thunder and lightning are formed. It's fascinated me ever since. But still scares me when it's loud and close. hehe.

Hooray for Childcraft.