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The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook
Introduction
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook was written as an invitation for you to join us atThe Quilt Inn, to savor not only the joy of bountiful down-home cooking, but to drink inthe pleasures of country inn living. We are itinerant travellers and country inn lovers, andwe have selected and savored the best recipes of all the ones that we have tried, tocreate the essence of “inn-ness” for you. We’ve collected our favorite dishes, andmemories, and spread them out for you here on our harvest table for you to sample andenjoy. When you re-create these recipes for yourself, and as the homey smells ofcountry cooking waft through your own kitchen, we hope you will be transported to TheQuilt Inn where a warm welcome awaits you.People often ask us where The Quilt Inn is located, and when then can comevisit us. The Quilt Inn is that mythic sort of place, like Camelot, that rises unexpectedlyand fortuitously at the end of a long day to give haven to the weary traveller. We’ve allbeen to The Quilt Inn, if only in our hearts. The Quilt Inn is old and cozy, just like one ofGrandma’s beloved and faded quilts it was named for. Whenever we are weary andbleary-eyed we can wrap it around us, and sink into its warmth.In Spring, we find the Inn in a cozy valley blanketed with snowy white cherry andpeach blossoms. In Summer, we find it perched atop a breezy hill where the verdanttreetops rustle like yards of crisp taffeta swooshing overhead. In Autumn, we find it atthe end of a long narrow lane bordered by rows of trees in riotous colored patchwork.In Winter, we find it etched sharply in delicate filigrees of ice as our footsteps crunchnoisily across the big snowy fields toward a wisp of smoke and warmth.It is everywhere different, and everywhere the same. It is the best of welcomingplaces.Welcome to The Quilt Inn.
 
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook Aliske Webb
© Aliske Webb 1999. All rights reserved. Published by Bookmice.com
Everybody’s From Somewhere
As Michael and I travelled around the country collecting stories for our memoriesand recipes for the Inn, we’ve enjoyed visiting small towns everywhere. I avoidhighways whenever possible and go out of my way to find the “grey roads” on the map.They are the old roads, that lead meandering routes from town to town, left behind bythe “red” and important superhighways.I often get us lost, but even that’s OK. Getting lost can lead you to some placemore interesting than where you were heading. Strange, that. A wise man said, “Whenyou are on a trip and your destination seems to move further and further away, youknow that it was the journey you were after, not the destination.”Early on we noticed that almost every town we visited had a sign at the townlimits proudly boasting a native son or daughter who had gone on to fame and fortune,supposedly elsewhere. Now we’re on the lookout for those wonderful telltale signs. Ithink we’ve found the home of every Miss America since 1957. We found football,basketball and baseball stars who made it past local high school hero to world classcompetitor. We found singers and musicians who probably drove the neighbors crazy,were the ne’r-do-wells at the time, probably now laughing, and strumming, all the wayto the bank.In the “Who’s Who” of towns, (or perhaps that should be the “Where’s Where”),is there a pecking order of luminaries? If your town can brag only of a Regional LawnBowling Champion, are you less of an address than a town strutting a Miss Americaor a Hall of Famer?It’s a comfortable reminder that everybody is from somewhere. And drivingaround any somebody’s home town lets us see a glimpse of their past and perhapstheir burning motivation for achieving success elsewhere. We wonder how those hometowns fare in the memories of native sons and daughters. Happy nostalgia ofchildhood? Or, couldn’t wait to leave nightmares.All those towns are everywhere different and everywhere the same. They aretowns without pity, towns from hell, or even towns with no name (Clint Eastwood
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