Old-Time Happy Housewifery

Album: What's Cooking

"Hey Grandpa, what's for supper?" "Corn bread and gravy. Candied yams. Butter beans. Blueberry cobbler. The more to eat, the more to spare." ~Hee Haw's Grandpa Jones

Album: Staff of Life

Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life. ~Lionel Poilane

Album: Butterin' Up

Her sheep follow'd her, as their tails did them. (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And this song is consider'd a perfect gem, And as to the meaning, it's what you please. [Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), British poet.]

Album: Breakfast

"A late breakfast puts back the work, through the whole day, for every member of a family." ~ Catherine E. Beecher (The American Woman's Home)

Album: The Menu Today

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ~Buddy Hackett

Album: Kiss the Cook

For 30 years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal was never found. ~Tracey Ullman on her mother's cooking

Album: Mealtime

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ~Samuel Johnson

Album: Mother's Table

Be known to us in breaking bread, But do not then depart; Saviour, abide with us, and spread Thy table in our heart. ~James Montgomery "The Family Table," l. 9-13, The Christian Psalmist

Album: Mother's Kitchen

"In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom." ~ Barbara Costikyan