Show FOODS OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS no longer reg regional but still enjoyed any reminder of the good old days when american cookery traditions were being formed Is sure to warm our hearts and make the gas gag trie juices run a little swifter but it Is safe to assert that wed have a gastric reaction of a more painful tort sort it if we were actually to return to the dally daily fare of our ancestors we do not want to revive the mistakes and the deficiencies of the early american diet but there can be much pleasure and benefit from renewing our acquaintance with some gome of the dishes which derived from the early days in this country indian cookery lore has been combined with and mod modified idled by the customs and traditions of each separate group of settlers in charleston C C the cookery Is a very special mixture of french and negro art certain of the favorite old time dishes of the middle and F far ar west were evolved during the covered wagon pilgrimages thus the beginnings of camp cookery althou although gb much of it was for far less healthful than present day camp food as the frying pan was the most extensively used implement over those open fires it Is 18 no accident we associate clam bakes and bli blineberry eberry puddings with cape cod chile con carne with texas and new mexico or fish milaus with charleston where the rice fields used to stretch in every direction now all these regional dishes may be enjoyed at any point of the compass lettle gay in the parents maga one reull results count there were three of them with the boastful spirit of ten years talking of abie achievements of their respective fathers said the son of a lawyer my daddy can get a hundred dollars just settling something about a fence line no 2 retorted my father la Is a doctor and sometimes has two hundred for a good job not to be outdone out done the smallest of the group ended the bragging with well my father ll in a minister and it takes six men to carry away the money on plates plate after he preaches new outlook |