April 2012
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Mrs. William Conrad's Famous Clam Pie
A guest post from Mara Conrad Tippett!
Some of my fondest childhood memories are of the clamming adventures my sister and I had with my grandfather, Reginald Conrad. He’d take us out on his boat to explore the harbors near his home in East Hampton: Napeague, Accabonac, and Three Mile. Upon returning with bushels of clams, my grandmother would get to work making clam pies. My...
Art by Julianna Swaney
Thomas Flint Nichols Gilbert is Gima’s youngest grandson, and Liz Gilbert’s beloved Uncle Nick. A retired high school English teacher, Nick is our family’s own Mr. Chips. Only funnier and his wife is still very much alive. Nick shares his memories of Gima on the anniversary of her death. —Alexa
By Nick Gilbert
I don’t see Gima in the kitchen. I always picture her at the...
Stone Soup
“Lentil soup prevents goblins and the ‘whoo-ooo’ nights” by Evah Fan
Once upon a time, I lived in Czechoslovakia, with the family of my once fiancée. They were a very nice family, with whom I shared only one thing in common—a love of their favorite progeny. I didn’t speak their language, have an aptitude for medical science, or any hope of medaling in an Olympic sport....
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Liz Gilbert cooks Gima's vegetable soup
Here’s Liz with her take on Gima’s vegetable soup!
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Reluctant People of the Ham
Art by Rachell Sumpter
From the March 25, 1951 Wilmington Sunday Star:
Easter’s here and if we didn’t know it by The-Man-Who-Washes-the-Dishes constantly humming ‘The Strife is o’er, the Battle Won’ preparatory to choir practice, there would still be grandchildren demanding more eggs for dyeing than all the hens in Delaware could lay in a year, strange splotches of color on the kitchen floor...
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Gima, Crack Food Reporter
No one in the family seems to know how Margaret Yardley ended up on the pages of the Wilmington Sunday Star, but my guess is it wasn’t by accident. Grandma Sue has always made it very clear that Mrs. Potter was a forceful, sometimes intimidating woman. The two of them worked together at the Dorothy Bullitt dress shop on Ardmore Avenue in Chestnut Hill. It was an exclusive retailer for women of...
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About this Tumblr!
Dear Internet Citizen:
Recently, Elizabeth Gilbert rediscovered a cookbook called At Home on the Range that was written by her great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. She read the book in a single sitting and loved it, and then sent us an effusive email about this hilarious narrative cookbook that was way ahead of its time, saying we should publish a new edition, with sales benefiting...
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Flat Cakes and Boiled Icings
Art by Shannon May (who also did the gorgeous illustrations in the book!)
I approached the dessert section of At Home on the Range trepidatiously. The last time I’d really looked at Gima’s cookbook was as a teenager, when I was much more ambitious in the dessert department. It was the 80s, and death by chocolate was all the rage. Gima’s basic cakes and custards seemed lackluster, at best....
