The Muse of Menus

Download or read book The Muse of Menus written by Constance Crawford and published by Daniel & Daniel Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book began when I set myself the deceptively simple task of writing out some recipes for my four grown sons and daughters. As an introduction to the recipe collection, I wrote the story of how I learned to make our family's favorite dish, Betty Woodman's Pancakes. Then I thought David, Ann, Alan, and Melissa might be encouraged to know that I, too, was once a beginning cook, so I wrote about the Very Special Chicken and Noodles disaster. Then I wanted them to know about my childhood by the mountain lake, my life's first friend there, and how his mother taught me to make tacos, her way. Recipe led to story, story to character, character back to recipe until I began to see cooking as a strand that weaves through every part of our lives, connecting us to our intimate past, touching our most vital feelings and relationships, reminding us of our best comedies -- and our tragedies as well. From a short collection of recipes my project became this book about my life and cooking."--