Holiday Cookbook 1991 to 2012

Hello All:

Food for Thought

In 1991, I created a Family Cookbook on a Commodore 64 and a dot-matrix printer.  I had it copied and bound in school presentation folder.  I was always coming up with something handmade for Christmas.  In 1991, my mother was still with us and we were all living in the same city.  In the twenty-two years that have followed there has been many changes.  My daughter is an adult (I can not even believe this statement), Mom is gone, and I no longer live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Last Christmas, my daughter was staying with my younger sister after her knee surgery.  She stayed at night and I came during the day.  It was  a good arrangement because my sister had a major complication.  She had a TIA - Trans Ischemic attack (mini stroke).  It was a real game changer for her rehabilitation and recovery. 

Anyway, my daughter found my sister's copy of the old family cookbook and made one of the recipes for whiskey cake.  It was really good.  I found my copy and decided to re-do the book for this year's holiday.  With all the technology advances in the last twenty years, this book will be very close to a professional job.  I can take book to Sam's or use an online publisher to have it bound for gifting.  I am going to use Photo Editing software to include pictures and even some videos for the interactive version.  Oh, did I forget to mention that I am going to really go high tech and publish it as an IBook with Apple.  Yes, indeed, times have really changed from that old "dot-matrix" printer days.


Enjoy the sewing Cat: