Snow King Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Morning winter sky in Jackson Hole, Wyoming - home of STAT!Ref
Excerpt from “Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project”…
"The importance of this work cannot be overestimated. Its initial publication (Hartford, 1796) was, in its own way, a second Declaration of American Independence. It was not the first cookbook printed in America but was the first written by an American for Americans. All earlier American cookery imprints were reprints from the British repertoire. Simmons' book attempted to recognize and use American products, specifically corn, cranberries, turkey, squash and potatoes, all uniquely indigenous to the New World.
Although native Americans had been using corn for many millenia and European and African Americans from earliest pilgrim days, this book offers the first printed recipes using cornmeal - three for A Nice Indian Pudding and one each for Johnny Cake or Hoe Cake and Indian Slapjacks. Simmons also suggested using corncobs to smoke bacon and the pairing of cranberry sauce with turkey....."
Going Coming - Norman Rockwell
We hope you have a nice weekend with family and friends.
Our thoughts are with those recovering from the floods along the Eastern Seaboard and Canada.
Best to you from all of us at STAT!Ref!
