On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:49:56 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:

> Alton Brown devotes a whole show to the development of various spice
> usage and trade routes and the impact of various social events.
> Although most everyone had telephones by the 50's for communication,
> you still have to think in terms of generations. Your mother might be
> reluctant to try a new herb or spice because her mother never did.

My mother probably had more spices in her cabinet than I remember, but
besides salt & pepper, the only two I remember her using with any
regularity are powdered garlic (not garlic salt) and summer savory.
She had the winter holiday herbs and spices that only came out then...
like dried sage and all the pumpkin pie spices. Interestingly enough,
she used Worcestershire sauce in gravy.

I remember that her mother (grandma) was very proud of the garlic
patch that her mother (my great-grandmother) had planted. She had no
idea how to use fresh garlic, didn't even know that you harvested the
part that was underground; but she and grandpa kept that patch going
until they moved out here to California because they liked the pretty
flowers.

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.