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