[chubbyalaskagriz]

Hey Gang,

I was tickled when the mail-gal delivered my new-member box of five freebies from "The Good Cook" today! This is about my millionth membership!

My box included a new copy of 1.) "Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen" (left old one w/ Arturo in Alaska) 2.) "The Deen Bros. 'Ya'll Come Eat' ", 3.) Susan Spicer's "Cresent City Cooking", 4.) Patty Pinner's "Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations with Pie", and 5.) Martha Hall Foose's "Screen Doors & Sweet Tea".

Although I'm exctied about all the books- I am particularly thrilled about the last two, as both promise to be not only cookbooks w/ awesome recipes and pics, but they also appear chock-full of essay-writings, kinda in the vein of Maya Angelou's "The Hallelujah Table".

(If I ain't showin' up much here in the next couple days it simply means that I'm side-tracked with the new books- and the new job at State Farm, which starts-up tomorrow! (notice the "new job"- though exciting, is in the shadows of, and plays second fiddle to the NEW COOKBOOKS!)