Charming and Funny Cookbook
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Ageless Homestyle Recipes and Humor found in Grandmother Used to Say
If you're looking for a heart warming gift, or just want something light-hearted yet inspiring to read, try this cookbook with a twist! Grandmother Used to Say, a Year of Recipes and Remembrance is the newest type of cookbook. Grandmother Used to Say has over two hundred recipes and one of grandmother’s favorite aphorisms to go with each one. Every recipe is the comfort food you grew up with; wholesome and traditional, just like grandmother used to make, full of flavor and love. With ageless recipes and humorous and insightful advice for all of the holidays, family reunions, cleaning, and even the weather, this cook book is an absolute page turner!
Audrey Shuler Thibodeau has been writing and cooking “longer than you want to know,” as she puts it. Along with being the Food Editor for Caledonian Record in Vermont, and a Field Editor for the Taste of Home magazine in Wisconsin, Audrey wrote several newspaper columns called Grandmother Used to Say, which appeared in newspapers around the nation for years. Grandmother Used to Say, Audrey’s first book, is a collection of many of those newspaper columns.
When she was young, Audrey was fortunate to spend time on her family’s ranch in southeastern Colorado. Her grandparents built the ranch in the late nineteenth century, and it is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Audrey’s time with her grandmother gave her a head full of common sense. Her grandmother’s advice included sayings like,
Swallow your pride occasionally... It's non-fattening
The only things kids wear out faster than shoes are teachers and parents
The only way a do-it-yourselfer can stop hitting his thumb is to have his wife hold the nail
Most tress take five years to produce nuts, but not the family tree
A desk is a wastebasket with drawers
Nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on the wall
Audrey combined her grandmother’s advice with recipes she had gathered over the years and published them in newspapers. The compilation of her articles brings out the best of what Grandmother Used to Say, highlighting the humorous, but practical approach her grandmother brought to life, and showing readers how applicable the advice still is today.
To obtain an electronic version of the cover, to discuss excerpts, or to arrange to speak to Audrey Thibodeau, contact Stacey Cashmore at stacey@hiredpen.com or 602-277-6649.
Grandmother Used to Say, a Year of Recipes and Remembrance
ISBN 0-9774306-5-0, $14.95, 6x9, 331 pages
Published by Acacia Publishing; http://www.acaciapublishing.com