I've already told the story of how Weesie's Cookbook came to be, in the Chop Suey edition. But if you're short of time, here's the Cliff Notes edition:
"Weesie" was my maternal grandmother, Lousie, who died in June, 2006. To everyone but her grandchilren, she was known as "Weesie" or "Aunt Weesie", and in a family of great cooks, she was widely acknowledged as "the best", and she collected recipes like mad. In the mid/late-90s, as her eyesight rapidly deteriorated from macular degeneration, she asked my sister and I to enter some of her favorite recipes into our computers, enlarge the type and print them off for her so she could read them. We began doing so during the 1998 Christmas season, and the project quickly grew into "Weesie's Cookbook".
So, turn the page to join my family, gathered in my Grandma's kitchen, the table covered with my laptop and hundreds of recipes - clipped from magazines, scribbled on envelopes, embedded in letters, handwritten on tattered, yellowing recipe cards - during the 1998 Christmas season:
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