Vittles and Vignettes is a collection of over 250 family recipes and a sampling of original short stories, magazine articles, essays, and poems, some fantasy, some factual. Several vignettes spotlight actual people but portions may have been fictionalized for their privacy. Other vignettes are autobiographical, or pure fiction, but denote a time and place that's fading, like farm families in rural America. Hard-working farmers and brave pioneers are captured - those people who set the standards for wholesomeness in our nation. Watch any national news program and see how our country tends to...