Vintage Eats Recipe: Pumpkin Fluff

Pumpkin Fluff is a super-easy dessert that takes just minutes to assemble. This post releases on Halloween, which in the United States is a holiday largely focused around food – mainly candy. Children (and some adults) dress up is costumes to visit neighbors, churches, businesses to receive candy and other treats. My husband happily answers... Continue Reading →

Vintage Eats Restaurant: Dutch Mill in Bluffton Indiana

This column will occasionally include information about restaurants from the past or which evoke memories of the past. This is a personal favorite as you will see. ** It was my first job interview. I had just turned 16 in the mid-1970s when Dad took me to the Dutch Mill restaurant to help me apply... Continue Reading →

Make Kate Smith’s Gala Cake Recipe

For several years I’ve been collecting recipes and cookbooks from the 1940s. It’s been interesting studying how food was produced and prepared and eaten. It’s amazing how some foods that were rationed then are running into similar situations today, i.e. eggs. I’ll share bits of information periodically in a column called ‘What’s Cookin’?’ It may... Continue Reading →

Learn to Make Cuban Sandwich, Papaya Mango Shake

If you don't know by now how much I love libraries and the people who work in them, then we need to spend more time together! I’ve worked in a college library and now work in a school library. I love being surrounded by books! As an author, it’s a joy to see librarians excited... Continue Reading →

Mad Anthony’s Restaurant Serves Fantastic Food and Memories

  It was always a desire of mine to be a travel writer. I’ve written travel-related stories for many locales, including Alaska, Florida, Ohio, Indiana. I currently write posts about Fort Wayne (IN) for the http://www.visitfortwayne.com/Insiderblog . This is a fun way to get to know a city’s best eating /entertainment spots. This restaurant is a... Continue Reading →

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