The evolution of the kitchen

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7. Tales from My Mother-In-Law

My late mother-in-law grew up in Western Kentucky in the area that is now the Land Between the Rivers Park, but was a primitive wildness area when she was a child. She grew up in a log house with a dog trot with no electricity or indoor plumbing. Her family was very poor, her father, a farmer who supplemented the food supply with wild game. They did not have a stove, but cooked in the open hearth. She said they had iron rods that swung out from the fire, you'd hang pots on the hooks and swing them back into the fire or over the coals. I love food history and so enjoyed her telling how they prepared their foods . I so wish that I'd had a tape recorder when she talked.