Anne of Green Gables
I just wrote a long and thoughtful post on the foodways described in ‘The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook’. I talked about how it reflected the nature and expectations of children’s cookbooks rather than the heritage foodways expressed in the Anne books. I said this with great style and in great detail, but my post was eaten in transit so the only people who got to read it are those who reside in the ether.
I have a bus to meet so you will miss my comments on how the book reflects the food assumptions of Ontario rather than the Maritime States and what it does (which it does well, if you are cooking in Canada) to get children interested in cooking. Twenty-five recipes is as much as a child can cook in a summer and be able to boast of it. That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it :).
Anyhow, what I thought was going to be a post all about the Anne books as evidence of foodways turned out to be a post about how children’s cookbooks are an important part of culinary history. And now you have the gist of my lost post, I had better head towards the bus interchange. In a hurry.
October 21st, 2006 at 4:10 pm
My condolences on your loss of post.
To cheer you up, here is the link to the recipes from the Aunt Dimity mystery series by Nancy Atherton: http://www.aunt-dimity.com/Recipe_Menu.htm