Holding the Holy Grail

I have in my hands Lucy Page Simons cookbook- Recipes from Kith and Kin printed in 1979 "as an attempt to chronicle some of the recipes of the past generation of very good cooks in our common and in-law families." Lucy was a fabulous cook who blessed our church with those incredible home-made white Parker house rolls, numerous cakes and even home-made ultra thin Moravian Christmas cookies. It was Lucy who got me thinking about exciting the taste buds with quality home-made food- not just settling for last minute thrown-together packaged volume. As she fought Leukemia, she lamented her food tasting like tin due to her chemo treatments. Julia Child was a wonderful cook, but it will be my priviledge to try to follow Lucy's blazed trail of putting the energy and love into serving others with a ministry of good home-made food. How about you? Band together with cooks better than yourself and enjoy the fruits of your labor.