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Somewhere In Time

Yes, I mean the 1980 movie with the gorgeous Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, which was filmed at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan.   If you haven’t seen the romantic movie and love a good cry, rent it now.  As lovely as the movie is, the Grand Hotel steals the scenes.  The hotel is beyond […]

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High Frequency Cooking: Radio Recipes

Before we watched Julia Child work her magic on “The French Chef,” or cheer on our favorite Iron Chef, there was radio.  There are still some radio shows where chefs will talk about the latest food trends, and a recipe will be given out by Martha Stewart, but in days gone by, radio was the only way some rural […]

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1961 Betty Crocker

Cookbook dealers will tell you that “Betty Crocker’s Picture Cookbook” of 1951 is a hot commodity.  I have the next one that was published in 1961 called “Betty Crocker’s New Picture Cookbook.”  Even this “new” addition has sold in the past for over $100.  These books are hard to find in mint condition because people used them until […]

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Kay Sullivan: Cookbook Collector Extraordinaire

Catherine H. “Kay” Sullivan was my hero.  We shared the passion of cookbooks, but Kay took it to a higher level.  Kay’s love of the culinary arts developed into a cookbook business which she called “Kay’s Treasured Kookbook Kollection.”  Kay loved opening up a cookbook and trying out a new recipe, but found equal pleasure […]

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Where Is Rosie When You Need Her?

Remember Rosie the robot maid from the Jetson’s?  You thought she was futuristic? Wait until you read this:www.technewsdaily.com/futuristic-kitchen-needs-no-pots-and-pans-0238A future kitchen concept was announced by Electrolux as a “compact, shape-shifting, all-in-one cooking station that aims to do away with pots and pans forever,” and the design calls for “an intelligent, amorphous, interchangeable cooking surface that adapts to users […]

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Lights! Camera! Party!

It’s Oscar night once again in Hollywood, this Sunday, March 7th.  For those of you who look for any excuse to party, the Academy Awards is the perfect time to go all out on the glitz and glamour.  You can make swanky finger foods, have champagne, and even roll out the red carpet -literally.  Find some inexpensive red […]

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Midwest Meat-and-Potatoes? Not Hardly!

I love everything about living in the Midwest.  Yes, even the snow.  I find the change of seasons invigorating.  There is the beauty of snow in winter, planting a garden in the spring, harvesting and preserving in the heat of summer, and awaiting the first fall colors, which are all energizing to the soul.  But many have the […]

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The Gentle Art of Chinese Cooking

In the early 70’s as a young 20-something, I lived in Larkspur, California, which is a beautiful little town right over the Golden Gate Bridge.  I loved  visiting San Francisco, and never tired of driving across the bridge to take in the excitement of one most beautiful cities in the world.  I would go to […]

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