So I’m not the only one in double digits for rereading GWTW. Do you remember the scene during the war when Scarlett lamented the slim pickings on the Christmas table and looked back on past tables filled with hams, greens swimming in pot liquor, and multiple kinds of cake? Kind of makes me think of my grandmother’s table except add scalloped potatoes, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese along with three pies. Oh heart disease. Yep lost two uncles that way and they were rail skinny all their lives.
Oh, my gosh...
I remembered that passage from the first time I read the book because it was like the Sunday dinners I recall from childhood (well, not the three desserts, lol). I was sure it was in the front of the book...you know, when the Tarleton twins left and Scarlett went in to dinner. But it wasn’t there, and I started to get ticked off that I had an abridged copy, LOL.
But I flipped through and found it. “Mounds of green beans on flowered porcelain”.
But, mentioning the culinary tidbits: truly Margaret Mitchell went into great detail when describing the traditional Southern meals...all the way into, through, and past the war. Certainly the pre-war descriptions were over-the-top as that's what their life was.
yummmmm...scalloped potatoes, mashed potatoes, mac & cheese....yummmm...your grandmother did the good stuff!
I've got a couple of dozen - and I'm a guy...