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I never thought I was fixated on food until daughter Maggie's husband, Arch, expressed dismay over our family's tendency to discuss the dinner menu while still eating lunch. That's pretty much how everybody was during my growing-up years in the cornbelt. Partly that was because grocery stores didn't sell a lot of ready-to-cook meals back then. Nearly everything had to be made from scratch. We didn't have access to a lot of frozen foods either. It wasn't until after World War II that the freezer part of home refrigerators offered room for more than a quart of ice cream and a tray of ice cubes. In those days, feeding a family took a lot more planning than it does today. It's no wonder we still talk about dinner over the lunch table.Today's young people have no way of knowing how primitive grocery shopping was up until the mid-20th century. Even I tend to forget how seasonal many commodities were in the days before refrigeration became so universal. Home freezers were still off in the...
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