Family food traditions nourish our lives

As I grew up on an Iowa farm in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the main foods we made from actual recipes were desserts.

Sweet Tooth

OK, lessee now... For my last birthday, my middle daughter gave me a box filled with "retro" candy from the 50's. Not that the sweets were in actuality that old, ya know, but the recipes and packaging were followed religiously. While I'm not that much of a candy connoisseur, it sure was fun lookin' through the fondly remembered confections that I used to pick up at the local drug store for ...

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# genius A 13-year-old girl from Connecticut named Mallory Kievman has come up with a pretty clever cure for hiccups: vinegar lollipops! She developed the idea after researching various at-home remedies—a teaspoon of vinegar, hard candy, etc—as well as the physiological reason for a bout of hiccups. More »