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Curry: Bombay Meets Dixie and Becomes a Roosevelt Favorite

Posted on March 28, 2014 by heritagerecipebox

My grandmother, Hanna, collected quite a few chicken curry recipes, a surprisingly exotic departure from her preference for plain food. I don’t remember meeting anyone from India while I was growing up in Richmond, but Indian food was nonetheless popular … Continue reading →

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Hot Chocolate, Cold Meat, Gingerbread: What Washington Really Ate

Posted on February 15, 2014 by heritagerecipebox

For George Washington’s birthday, my mother used to buy a supermarket cake overloaded with pink frosting that stuck to the knife. Never mind that the cherries tasted more of chemicals than fruit. Every bite felt patriotic. At my elementary school … Continue reading →

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Plain Old Baked Butterscotch Apples

Posted on January 20, 2014 by heritagerecipebox

For someone who spent little time in the kitchen, my grandmother, Hanna (she’s in slacks; her sister is on her left), wrote down and saved a lot of recipes. Neither she nor my grandfather liked what they termed “fancy food.” … Continue reading →

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‘One of the Housekeeper’s Necessaries’

Posted on January 18, 2014 by heritagerecipebox

I am named after my great-grandmother, Clara, whose parents emigrated from a small village in southern Germany to Cleveland, Ohio in the 1870s. She looks genteel in this photo but her family supported itself with the rough-and-tumble Black Cat Whiskey … Continue reading →

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