Dining Through the Decades

I've always enjoyed listening to our grandmother's tell stories of growing up during the war, from Jeremy's grandma telling about the rare coke they would get (in glass bottles, obviously) to my grandma making her wedding dress out of a parachute (which I had the honor of wearing 51 years later on my wedding day), so I was excited to try some food typical of what they would have eaten. That was until I actually opened the book and realized that indeed, they WERE resourceful, often eating every part of the animal. I do realize that when your belly is hungry you get far less picky, but honestly, I think I would happily turn vegan before eating some of the things they did. I was going to have to pass on the lynx (even if it was soaked in wine for a month) , the "White Market Lamp Neck Casserole" and "Boiled Tongue" and settled on "Patriotic Pinwheel Meat Roll" , green beans and "Sheila Hibben's Orange-Lemon Pudding Cake From Florida...

This whole thing started with my best friend, Hannah. We've been friends since 1996. Life has taken both of us a lot of different places and there have been years that have gone by where we barely talked. We both experienced our third pregnancies together, but talked maybe two the whole time. (I still can't believe we didn't talk more during that time!!). The past few years though have allowed us both to have internet in our homes and there hardly is a day go by that we don't at least pop on and say "Hi!" to each other. No matter how long the time we don't talk, we pick up where we left off. She knows more about what is happening with my body than my husband or gynecologist...that's the kind of friend she is. Anyway, a couple years ago she gave this book for my birthday... ...and from that was born the idea to have theme night meals with the kids and we ate our way through the century. Hannah had this idea I should put my findings in blog form....