294. They nonchalantly bake fifteen-layer cakes
'Many experienced cooks in the South assume that everyone knows how to bake. Virginia Willis, author of “Bon Appétit, Y’all,” sent me a coconut cake recipe she got from an 80-year-old family friend from Augusta, Ga. It begins: “Make a yellow cake.”'
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I love it. This is how my family all are when they give me recipes. I, on the other hand, being a terribly textual person, can barely function in the kitchen unless I have clear step by step instructions *in writing* in front of me at every moment.
And, being quite close to my grandmother, I can think of quite a few reasons to love old ladies, the best of which is: no filters on all the things you used to be too timid to ask about! Of course, this is also one of the reasons I fear old ladies....
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