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Love, Mom: Stories and Recipes from Kingston, Ohio
Love Mom Stories and Recipes from Kingston Ohio Author:Brenda McGuire Helen Burgoon was born in 1927 and raised in the small, rural community of Kingston, Ohio. She married her high school sweetheart and they had two girls, which Helen stayed at home with. And, being a stay-at-home mom during the 1960s, Helen loved to cook. In 2000, Helen was diagnosed with lung cancer. One of her primary missions, from the da... more »y she learned of her illness, was to make sure her daughters had all of her recipes, many of which weren't written down. So, she and her oldest daughter, Brenda, began a daily ritual of digging through recipe boxes and then Helen's memory for all of her favorite recipes. When Helen died on Christmas Day 2000, the idea for a cookbook was born and evolved into a tribute to the stay-at-home mom of the 1960s. Love, Mom is full of old-fashioned comfort food recipes and short stories about growing up in a small town in the 1960s. Brenda and her sister, Paula, are working hard to get the word out about this book and have pledged the profits from the sale of the book to the hospice that helped them care for Helen during her final days.« less