Marion Cunningham shifted food focus back to the home. She encouraged home cooks and provided multiple formats to get her point across in educating the masses. She wrote or collaborated on eight cookbooks, the last of which was “Lost Recipes” in 2003. Her cooking show series “Cunningham & Co ...
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Peanut Butter-Streusel Coffee Cake Recipe
I like the way coffee cake practically sings, "Good morning!" bursting through the gloom like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in tap shoes. I love the way the kitchen feels warmer, the coffee tastes better, and the kids perk up and dig in hungrily. What are quick breads, such as coffee cake, if ...
All About Farm Journal Editor and Cookbook Author Nell B. Nichols
In a time when knowing everything about a person is an Internet click away, when every cookbook author has a TV show or "influential" social media status, it's an odd feeling to realize you know absolutely diddly squat about someone — especially when that someone is as prolific a cookbook editor and ...
Why I Write in My Cookbooks (and Why You Should Too)
Writing in books didn't feel like some big hurdle when I first began penning my notes in the cookbooks in my collection. Maybe I like the whole handiness of it all. Or maybe it's genetic. As a child, my mother wrote her name, "Mary," in great big crayon letters on, well, pretty much ...
Farm Journal Cookbooks for Your Country Kitchen
I've mentioned Farm Journal cookbooks here on Little Indiana Bakes and the amazing food editor of so many of them, Nell Beaubien Nichols. Neighbor Donna revered these books, keeping her much-loved copies on top of the fridge for quick access, and not in the cabinet with the rest of her cookbooks. ...
