Thank you for letting us know about this book. It sounds great. I just ordered on Amazon. I didn't know Bertie Co. was ever tobacco country. My family grew peanuts. I remember my daddy putting tobacco on bee stings! Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: <puzlelady8109@aol.com> To: <ncbertie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:57 PM Subject: [NCBERTIE] Just one more cooking comment > There is a cook book called Carolina Tobacco Country Cookbook that is not > only a cook book but the history of tobacco country and that is what > Bertie > was at one time...Tobacco country! I KNOW, I was there. This book talks > about a time between the Great Civil War and WWII but let me tell you , > it > describes Bertie the way it was until the late 1950's. I got mine at the > museum in Bath, most museums in NC sell it for about $8 to $10. > Amazon.com has > it for sale from $11.88 to as high as $73. It even has medical > advice....use juice from tobacco(chewing tobacco or snuff) for bee > stings. Blow smoke > in the ear for an earache. > Reading it will take you to Bertie in the first half of the 20th century. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCBERTIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.62/2315 - Release Date: 08/20/09 06:05:00