{"id":726,"date":"2012-10-03T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicebyrd.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2012-10-15T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:23:47","slug":"book-mitford-cookbook-and-kitchen-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/book-mitford-cookbook-and-kitchen-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader by Jan Karon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAN KARON\u2019S MITFORD COOKBOOK AND KITCHEN READER (Penguin Group, c.2004) is a cleverly written memoir by the author of the Mitford Series.\u00a0 The Mitford novels are filled with food references, and this kitchen reader includes 150 recipes.\u00a0 A short story, never before published in any of Karon\u2019s books, \u201cThe Right Ingredients,\u201d reveals the secret recipe for Esther Bolick\u2019s famous Orange Marmalade Cake.<\/p>\n<p>Jan tells us how she came to write about her hometown of Blowing Rock, N. Carolina, and she shares her own family mealtime memories.\u00a0 My favorite section is Jan\u2019s description of her favorite foods and what she and others would request for their \u201clast meal.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cReal cooks don\u2019t need fancy ingredients,\u201d Jan explains.<\/p>\n<p>The book is full of beautiful photographs, jokes, and quotes from all the Mitford characters.\u00a0 Father Tim\u2019s housekeeper, Puny, gives us lots of cooking tips, like pre-soaking baked potatoes to reduce their baking time.\u00a0 Puny says, \u201cIt\u2019s the unblessed food that makes you fat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAN KARON\u2019S MITFORD COOKBOOK AND KITCHEN READER (Penguin Group, c.2004) is a cleverly written memoir by the author of the Mitford Series.\u00a0 The Mitford novels are filled with food references, and this kitchen reader includes 150 recipes.\u00a0 A short story, never before published in any of Karon\u2019s books, \u201cThe Right Ingredients,\u201d reveals the secret recipe [&hellip;]&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/book-mitford-cookbook-and-kitchen-reader\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}