[Publius]

When my mother died in 2002, she willed me her cookbook. It has recipes going back to the World War I era when South Philly was an immigrant staging area. (It still is, but the immigrants are from Southeast Asia, not Europe.) Some of the recipes are Sicilian, some from other areas of southern Italy, and some come from rubbing shoulders with Poles and other eastern European nationalities.

I turned the recipes into a Word document and passed it on to various family members. It's an artifact from an earlier era when women were expected to be artists of the kitchen.

[JudyinCanada]

That sounds fascinating, Publius!

What a treasure that would be to have.

So, is that where the anchovy/pasta recipe originated?

[1Old Pro]

Some of the recipes are Sicilian

We found my grandmothers cooking notes, nobody could read it and it didn't make sense. So we are all still looking for the Sicilian Manicotti recipe. We watched in amazement as she rolled the sheets so thin they were translucent cuttable with a fork.

[Spunky]

“It’s an artifact from an earlier era when women were expected to be artists of the kitchen.”

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Yes it is. This cook book even told you HOW to set a table etc.

Sometimes I wish society would go back to those times. Where women were women and men were men. Having etiquette etc.