Carry Steier

“There are many different ways to revise a cookbook. Faced with the task of updating Joy in the mid-1990s, my father, Ethan,”
― Irma S. Rombauer, Joy of Cooking

“When you see a roadside marker, take in what it tells but also ask, how might this be wrong? One giveaway is the use of qualifying phrases introducing statements of fact, as in: “According to tradition...” or “According to the legislature...” Visitors can count on the rest of such sentences to be unsubstantiated.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Don’t need no more of this world’s goods. Some folks gits plumb mesmerized when paper money is shook afore their eyes.”
― Catherine Marshall, Christy: A Historical Novel of Faith, Love, and Courage in the Smoky Mountains