One year

Jan. 2, 2010
The main dishes were surrounded with smaller dishes of pickled watermelon rind, beets and cucumbers, and spiced peaches. The dozen or so apple and sweet potato pies she had made where stacked in tiers of three, and the caramel and jelly layer cakes placed next to them. Plates, forks, and white damask napkins and gallon jars of lemonade and iced tea were the last things to be unpacked.

"The Taste of Country Cooking," by Edna Lewis, 1976
For my sweet potato queen, Ruth, who turns 98 today.