The Personality of a Cooking Blog is as apparent as it is important. It is composed of known and stable ingredients with unknown and elusive ones to make a mixture as familiar, friendly and exhilarating as a pine woods early on a summer morning.

The Stable Ingredients are compounded of a sound knowledge of what the homemaker needs for their family; an easy handling of all fundamental facts on preparing and serving foods, based on the science of nutrition, and on the presentation of those facts in a simple, concise, explicit, well organized, specific, easy-to follow, step-by-step procedure that gives a comforting feeling of confidence in the final product.

The Elusive Charm of this personality stems from clear overtones: a light touch--- a sense of humor--- a flair for the clever idea in cooking and serving that results in something called style, but above all a feeling for the kind of beauty that people want about them in their work-a-day world.

Most of This Beauty has been made possible by the cooperation and confidence of individuals in my personal and professional life, whose constant flow of inspiring ideas has resulted in illustrations of glorious usefulness. For these I am deeply indebted to:


Helen Johnson, Virginia Keys, David Johnson, Thornton Grant Jr., Dorin Bills, Karl Johnson, Irma Jean Johnson, Tommie Bills, Shirley Bills, Cindy Drennan, Karin Grant Anthony, Torin Grant-Campbell, David Michael Johnson, James Anthony Johnson, Tyrone Johnson, Karee Marshall, Laquana Johnson, Dewey Robertson, Walter Ledbetter, Gary Montgomery, Donald Durall, CWP, Soho House Chicago, Chef Nano, Nick Bahan, Nahuel Rodriguez, Melissa Nelle-Rodgers, Kevin Rodgers, Steven Simmons, Christopher Rosecrants, Dewayne Andrews, Leslie Cochren, and to my muse  Rachael Nelle.