Comments on: An Ode to the Cookbook (and some summer garden recipes) http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/07/31/recipes/ Your online simplicity village Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:07:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: chickadee http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/07/31/recipes/comment-page-1/#comment-662 chickadee Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:57:59 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/07/31/an-ode-to-the-cookbook-and-some-summer-garden-recipes/#comment-662 I also spend hours on net looking for recipes. I tried the chocolate zucchini cake and it was the best I've had in a long time!! My husband can't get enough of it. Thank you to Shelley Salsburey for sharing the recipe. I also spend hours on net looking for recipes. I tried the chocolate zucchini cake and it was the best I’ve had in a long time!! My husband can’t get enough of it. Thank you to Shelley Salsburey for sharing the recipe.

]]> By: Wade http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/07/31/recipes/comment-page-1/#comment-656 Wade Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:51:40 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/07/31/an-ode-to-the-cookbook-and-some-summer-garden-recipes/#comment-656 My wife will spend hours looking up recipes on the 'net, comparing ingredients and preparation methods, and finally printing off the dozen most-likely-to-succeed. She gets great results, but the physical permanence just isn't there- at least not like you'll find with actual "bound" cookbooks or meticulously hand penned index cards. A splash of "Worcestershire sauce" and the water-based ink is illegible, the notes no longer make sense, and for want of a ten-spot (or three) the original web site is gone. Maybe I'm just being maudlin this evening, reflecting on the ephemeral nature of all things "internet"; but I have to think your grandparents did a wonderful thing. My wife will spend hours looking up recipes on the ‘net, comparing ingredients and preparation methods, and finally printing off the dozen most-likely-to-succeed.

She gets great results, but the physical permanence just isn’t there- at least not like you’ll find with actual “bound” cookbooks or meticulously hand penned index cards.

A splash of “Worcestershire sauce” and the water-based ink is illegible, the notes no longer make sense, and for want of a ten-spot (or three) the original web site is gone.

Maybe I’m just being maudlin this evening, reflecting on the ephemeral nature of all things “internet”; but I have to think your grandparents did a wonderful thing.

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