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Fare Exchange is a longtime meeting place for people who love to cook and love to eat. We welcome both your recipes and your requests. Be sure to include precise instructions for every recipe you send. Mailing address: Jane Henegar, 913 Mount Olive Road, Lookout Mountain, GA 30750 E-mail: chattfare@gmail.com
Jane HenegarSo glad you are sitting down here – or standing up, for that matter – to join this conversation about food.
Last year, I became a subscriber to the New York Times recipe email. In the process, I got instructions for making an impressive loaf of yeast bread in a cast-iron Dutch oven and stirred-up chicken noodle soup in same pot. Next, a batch of morning glory muffins. The Times emails are folksy and have a kind of Fare Exchange vibe but, in the end, I realized that the cooks writing and cooks profiled are still not our people.
You all are my people. The nuances of those New York muffins made them not quite as good as the recipe I first got from Kitty Stone of Signal Mountain. So we continue, despite the usefulness of Google, to choose recipes chosen by people we know and live among.
Today, someone emailed news of The Skillet, a food email from Garden and Gun magazine. This will be Southern food, we are told. Will it be our people’s Southern food? Please offer your opinion.