Subject: Welcome to Granny's Kitchen!
Your List-owners and Moderators are Mez Packer (mezp@dial.pipex.com)
and Tom Holloway (tom.holloway@u3a.org.uk).
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Thank you for joining the GRANNY List. If you are a
school-teacher we hope your class will find our project
useful and stimulating. If you are an elderly or retired
person just interested in the project, we hope you won't
hesitate to dive in with comments and stories about the
kitchens and foods you have known in the past.
Frequently asked Questions
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Now that I've subscribed to the GRANNY List, what do I do
next?
The first step is probably to write to the list and just
introduce yourself and your school. Any message you send to
granny@maelstrom.stjohns.edu will be distributed to all the
schools and older people on the list.
If you are in the USA you might like to bear in mind that it
will be useful to give the age of the children who will take
part; the term 'grade' is often used in other countries as a
measure of ability, rather than age. (It is also useful to
give the name of your State in full - terms such as 'MA' and
'PA' aren't used much outside the US).
Are you just exchanging recipes from different countries
and cultures and times?
We hope not. We would like children to ask their relatives
and neighbours if they can recall recipes and how they were
prepared, so that these can be sent to to the list; but we
hope that we can cover a much wider range of kitchen
activities than just how to make shoo-fly pie or
bubble-and-squeak!
Are the panel of elders you mention all actually grannies?
Not really. Some of us are Grandads or just elderly retired
people, but we are mostly from either the ELDERS List (at St
John's University, New York) or members of the Leamington
Elders Line (a computer club for retired people who live in
or near Royal Leamington Spa, in England).
It sounds as though this could be just an exchange of
sumptuous feasts from yesteryear!
Maybe so, but one of our online Granny's (who lives in
Nicaragua) makes the point that many of the worlds' people
have spent most of their lives being hungry. We want to
include information about such things as well.
You mentioned something about 'home remedies' from the past.
How can we learn about those?
Once again, your relatives and neighbours will have a fund
of recollections about such things; maybe children simply
asking such questions as "what did you do when you cut
yourself" and "what did you do to cure coughs and colds?"
"Who paid for a doctor? " "Were there any doctors at all?"
Who are the online 'grannies' and 'grandads' you keep
mentioning?
Here's a short list of just a few of them...
* Adrian Cope (Retired Sea-captain) in Warwick, UK
* Anne Solley - a retired teacher (English and Biology)
* Bob Bettison - living in New Zealand
* Doreen Bennett, in Penzance, Cornwall
* Eileen Pedley - Leamington Spa - Teacher
* Francisca Middleton, Mill Valley, California
* Kathrynne Holden, Fort Collins Colorado, USA
* Magdalena Mokrzycki - from Poland, now living in
Kenilworth, UK
* Pat Davidson, Isle of Wight, England
... but there will no doubt be many more as the project
progresses.
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Tom Holloway
tom.holloway@u3a.org.uk
Tel: (+44) (0) 1926-771772
Fax: (+44) (0) 1926-771707
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