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Jane HenegarWe’re gathering around the home fires, or the campfires, with a few requests in mind: smoothies for the lactose-intolerant, George Cress’s curried rice salad and cooking instructions for a cured ham roast, six pounds in weight and three inches thick.
Roseann Strazinsky is searching for the smoothie; “Haricot” (the French word for “bean”) wanted Cress’ curried rice salad; and D.K.G. wanted help with cooking a ham received as a gift.
Haricot reminisced about George Cress, not only a noted artist and head of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s art department for many years but “also a gourmet cook and longtime family friend.”
“When I first sampled his curried rice salad at the old Plum Nelly art show in Rising Fawn, I thought it was the most wonderful food I had ever tasted,” Haricot says. “When The Chattanooga Times food page featured George and some of his recipes, I clipped this one. Sadly, it is lost and George is deceased. I’d love to make the dish again, but have forgotten some of the ingredients. I hope someone has kept this recipe and will share it.”