Annie Shreffler's Page

My copy of the cookbook by that name, subtitled "Suggestions by Mennonites on how to eat better and consume less of the world's limited food resources", is held together with some tape. Several of the pages are splotched or covered in a fine film of flour after sessions of cookie baking with my kids, or rolling chapatis to accompany curried dhal.

A friend gave me the cookbook in 1992 as a farewell gift. I was leaving Seattle for the Bronx, where she happened to have an aunt and encouraged me to… Continue

Jane Smith's iterations of "DUMP THEM ON THE PILE" in her HuffPo post "Stop Stalling, Start Composting" sounds so much like my grandmother, it made me laugh outloud. Thanks for the jolt, Jane!

It is so easy to get bogged down in buying gadgets nowadays to do the same simple tasks I grew up watching my grandparents perform without ever once browsing a Smith&Hawken catalog. By spen… Continue