"Crisco, IT'S DIGESTIBLE!" I love this ad; it makes me laugh every time. For the past few years, I have been collecting cookbooks and women's magazines from the first half of the twentieth century because I think there is more interesting history in their pages than in my dusty college textbooks. I love to see what people wore, what they made for dinner (LOTS of meat parts that most Americans today would say: "IT'S NOT DIGESTIBLE!"), how they spent their free time.I also find it fascinating that no matter how much the world has outwardly changed, so many questions we have today were asked more than sixty years ago: are vaccinations safe; in which states is divorce more prevalent; do doctors perform unnecessary surgeries; how can working women juggle their many demands? Which makes one wonder whether we have resolved any issues in all these years!
That said, I am thinking about Cranberry Pie! now for Thanksgiving this year. Nine out of 10 doctors can't be wrong, can they? ;-)
