Lucy's Recipes for Mountain Living

Eva McCall has done it again, this time with the help of her sister. Together, they have recorded their memories of Grandmother Lucy Carpenter, whose story is told in Eva's "Edge of Heaven" and "Children of the Mountain." "Lucy's Recipes" is not a cookbook per se; it's much better! The Carpenter sisters recall how Lucy fed and took care of her family the mountain way. You'll go with Lucy to hunt ginseng, sit at her table and enjoy roasted bear, and wonder 'til noon what's in your lunch pail. A delicious collection of vignettes!...

Need a recipe for Baked Black Bear? How 'bout Cathead Biscuits? Need to know what to with the hog once it's slaughtered or what to fix the kids for a sweet treat?Readers who fell in love with Lucy Davenport Carpenter and her struggles on Carpenter Mountain will delight in the new book, Lucy's Recipes for Mountain Living, by Edge of Heaven and Children of the Mountain author Eva McCall and her cousin, Emma Edsall.Feeding a family of seventeen would be a huge chore even in today's modern world of packaged, frozen and fast food meals. Imagine trying to do it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the nearest grocery store was fifteen miles away!McCall and Edsall capture what feeding a small army three meals in the supposedly good old days. While none of the recipes are really recipes and haven't been kitchen nor taste tested, although the authors invite reader to give 'em a whirl, the book is a fun way to learn how good we have it in 2002! McCall and Edsall provide memories of their Granny Lucy before the start of each of the ten sections that are both heart-warming and funny.Lucy's Recipes for Mountain Living would be a great gift for a tween or young adult reader. Let them see how hard life was in the hills of North Carolina and they won't grouse so much next time there's a line at the drive-thru. Adult readers will delight that we don't have to work as hard as poor Lucy did just to fill the kids' bellies.