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Susan Harris's avatar

I’m the youngest of seven. We were a big farm family so lots of meat, potatoes, garden vegetables, and fresh milk. We had a wood cook stove but rarely did we do more than keep a stew or soup at a slow simmer. Most of the cooking was done on our electric oven. We had a yellow glass cookie jar that always had cookies, a never ending supply! I don’t know if it’s genetics or the food I grew up consuming, but I never get sick. (Let me touch wood on that one.) I don’t get colds or the flu. I work in a hospital and I’m one of the few who never got COVID-19. I’m 56 now and take zero medication. I also still live in the farmhouse I grew up in and the kitchen has never been remodeled. Although we had to remove the heavy cast iron wood cook stove because it was threatening to crash through the floor into the basement.

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holly's avatar

My grandmother had a chrome & vinyl telephone chair with a pull out step stool in her kitchen. If the rotary phone rang, she could sit on the chair and talk while watching what was in progress on the stove or in the oven. It served double duty as a ladder to the higher cabinets where she kept all of her best linens, baking pans and more. I miss that chair.

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