From Carol Holmes, New Glarus
To the editor:
On Saturday, June 9, there is going to be a very special event happening in New Glarus. Between noon and 5 p.m., Doris Streiff will be at the Maple Leaf, selling and signing her newest cookbook, "Down on the Farm III." She mentioned it in passing to me, and it got me thinking of possibilities.
She is dedicating this cookbook to her grandson, Alex Troxler, who was killed in an auto accident last August. Alex was a frequent partner in her kitchen. Her goal for the cookbook is to preserve simple Swiss and Norwegian recipes that are part of her heritage (and that of New Glarus). She had a treasure of old ethnic recipes that were part of her childhood (more than 90 of them are in the book), so she thought that they deserved sharing.
As I pondered what this event could be like I thought about our earliest days here in New Glarus. We moved here in 1973, and our two daughters were in the early years of grade school. They both wanted to be part of 4-H, and they quickly signed up to be part of Doris' Food and Nutrition classes as soon as they were old enough to participate. I was amazed at how gracious this wife and mother was as she welcomed my children into her kitchen and fed their hungry minds with the tools of getting around in the kitchen. To this day, both of them have used Down on the Farm I and II until they are tattered, and spotted with grease, etc. My grandchildren have learned to cook from those very same books.
Doris likely reached hundreds of children as she taught cooking in her home for more than 30 years. Wouldn't it be something if the Maple Leaf would be swamped with people who cultivated their early culinary talents with Doris? I can envision a line of people reaching all the way down to Puempel's Tavern. What a way to say thank you to this wonderful woman who has given and keeps giving so much to this community, and you can walk away with a new cookbook. At noon on the 9th, I will be in that line with one daughter from Wisconsin, and our other daughter is preparing to order a number of copies for her family and friends in the state of Washington.
To the editor:
On Saturday, June 9, there is going to be a very special event happening in New Glarus. Between noon and 5 p.m., Doris Streiff will be at the Maple Leaf, selling and signing her newest cookbook, "Down on the Farm III." She mentioned it in passing to me, and it got me thinking of possibilities.
She is dedicating this cookbook to her grandson, Alex Troxler, who was killed in an auto accident last August. Alex was a frequent partner in her kitchen. Her goal for the cookbook is to preserve simple Swiss and Norwegian recipes that are part of her heritage (and that of New Glarus). She had a treasure of old ethnic recipes that were part of her childhood (more than 90 of them are in the book), so she thought that they deserved sharing.
As I pondered what this event could be like I thought about our earliest days here in New Glarus. We moved here in 1973, and our two daughters were in the early years of grade school. They both wanted to be part of 4-H, and they quickly signed up to be part of Doris' Food and Nutrition classes as soon as they were old enough to participate. I was amazed at how gracious this wife and mother was as she welcomed my children into her kitchen and fed their hungry minds with the tools of getting around in the kitchen. To this day, both of them have used Down on the Farm I and II until they are tattered, and spotted with grease, etc. My grandchildren have learned to cook from those very same books.
Doris likely reached hundreds of children as she taught cooking in her home for more than 30 years. Wouldn't it be something if the Maple Leaf would be swamped with people who cultivated their early culinary talents with Doris? I can envision a line of people reaching all the way down to Puempel's Tavern. What a way to say thank you to this wonderful woman who has given and keeps giving so much to this community, and you can walk away with a new cookbook. At noon on the 9th, I will be in that line with one daughter from Wisconsin, and our other daughter is preparing to order a number of copies for her family and friends in the state of Washington.
