Well, Maggie, I'm with you...except I'm down here in Florida wishing I could go to my Granny Mary's in Tennessee and have homemade Parker House rolls and some of that Tennessee ham with her once again. I have said before that I am really more interested in how our folks lived and what they did with their lives than I am in what date they were born and what date they died. A little lightening up now and then should be ok when we get so discouraged about not being able to get that hard to find information. Jo... [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 12/02/2000 4:55:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << How did recipies become a part of genealogy? This is not what we subscribe > to > the list for. >> > > Well .... speaking for only myself .... I think that my Gran's recipes .. the > way she cooked and what she cooked .. IS most definately a part of my > heritage. I know that there are things I make that are made the way she > taught me .. and I hope that my granddaughter, some day, will make some > things the way I teach her .. and remember me with as much love and joy as I > remember my Gran. (the lady from Drummonds, TN) > > While this is not a recipe list .. sometimes getting off just a little > like this allows the people on the list to become friendly .. it creates some > goodwill and a sense of camaraderie .. is that such a bad thing? Yes, > perhaps the responses to the request should have been handled privately > through emails, rather than to the entire list .. but to me, sitting up here > in Michigan and WISHING I was able to be in TN .. it seemed to be another > example of those wonderful Southern folks and their well-known generosity and > hospitality. I smiled when I saw the ladies reaching into their own family > books to give out to a total stranger a family recipe. > > Because that's exactly the way my Gran would have done it. Southern > habits are hard to break. > > Hugs to all .. and please forgive me if I have stepped out of turn to > voice my opinion. > > Maggie > > ==== TNROOTS Mailing List ==== > For researching all Rootsweb List Archives, > please go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/