Recipes From Yesteryear

The following bit of wisdom is taken from "The Winds of Sinhala", by Colin De Silva: -
One of the most important things in life is to remember that people can only be themselves. You expect them to behave in a certain way. When they do not, your reaction - the hurt, the sorrow, the grief - is indeed the final product of their action. But it is still your own reaction. After all, the same behaviour can make one person laugh and another cry. You will never know whether people try as hard to make you happy as you would like them to, or whether they have tried at all, but you must not blame them for being what they are, merely because it is a disappointment to you.
It is love that enables us to accept people as they are. Love can emerge suddenly, or it can be the product of a relationship. Since its seemingly natural form is with blood ties, such as between parents and children, brothers and sister, we expect too much from these ties.

A man needs to be responsible for others in order to exist. - Colin de Silva (The Winds of Sinhala)

Perfection is achieved not when nothing more can be added; but when nothing more can be removed.

Antoine de SaintExupery

Gleaned from Old Magazines and Cookbooks, along with precious hand written recipes passed down from generation to generation. Those rediscovered gems, borrowed from the pages of old files, shaken from patched, stained, lovingly worn family cookbooks, or found boxed and packed away in dusty attics, or chanced upon in some out of the way shelf in an old, country bookstore are here, set out to give pleasure to the cook and food aficianado alike. Anecdotal snippets, drawings and histories of recipes, humorous, odd and otherwise, are interwoven with the "reciepts" themselves - well some of them - in an endeavour to take us back to another year, another time, and maybe bring back again the delicious warmth, smells and tastes remembered from the kitchens of our childhood.