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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up on a farm in Appalachia.  We are deer, squirrels, fish from the river, pigs we slaughtered.  Rarely beef because they were sold for $$ to buy other things.

All our veggies were grown during summer and canned/frozen for winter.  My favorites were cat head biscuits and gravy, homemade blackberry jam.

My grandma swore she couldn’t bake bread in an electric oven, only her wood-fired one.

It was very healthy and lots of work.  I was helping with dinner from a very young age, and sometimes would get sent in from the fields around age 7 to make dinner for the family by myself, so the older women could keep working.  Somehow I still love to cook!

I’ve been cooking a lot more Asian foods recently, which is fun.  New flavors and I love spice. I don’t think coming from a classic American background means you are going to have a boring palate.  I ADORE seafood because it was always such a delicacy growing up.

I still like to cook from scratch but am not afraid of a convenience product either.  I am a fervent consumer of cooking shows, but have a few jars of Rao’s marinara in the pantry for nights I don’t have much time.  It doesn’t have to be either/or…on a farm we spent all day Sunday cooking an elaborate supper, but also there are many nights you have 15 minutes to get food on the table because you need to get back to work. [/quote]

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