In nearly every one of my many novels I include eating and kitchen scenes--in many California Rancho Cooking. After all, it's a good part of our daily life. In this cookbook, since I've done lots of books or early California, I quote from journals and biographies....
For instance:
"Were the devil himself to call
for a night's lodging, the
Californian would hardly find
it in his heart to bolt the door..."
Diary of
Walter Colton
Monterey, 1850
If you like to read as well as cook, you might enjoy this one. For instance:
Introduction
“Cinch him up, spur hard, and let him buck…”
Outside my kitchen window a pair of wild Merriam turkeys with a clutch of chicks investigate my flower beds to see what my bird feeders have spilled.
They're my clean-up crew.
On the distant hillside a whitetail doe cautiously leads a spindly legged spotted fawn down to our north pasture. As I stroll along the long gravel driveway an osprey, the fish eagle, wings overhead on his way to beat the fly-fishermen to a breakfast of rainbow, brown, or native cutthroat trout from Wolfpack Ranch’s gurgling neighbor, one of the world's most pristine fly fishing streams.
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