A Cook's Notebook: Mrs. Clark's Cornbread
Series: A Cook's Notebook
From: Ali Berlow
Length: 00:02:50
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A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC. Mrs. Clark's Cornbread first aired on on WCAI April 28, 2004. PROMOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Accompanying recipes available at www.cooksnotebook.com
Transcript
Mr. McCabe, a well-known water witch in the Ozarks, had the entire Clark family wandering around their property with dowsing rods. Even the youngest of the five Clark boys ? Little Leonard had a Y-shaped stick made from a red-bud tree. Mr. Clark ? Frank Sr. ? suspected that Mr. McCabe knew exactly where the water was but he liked watching the Clarks try and feel it. Frank Sr. thought ?Why did I barter half a pig for this? We?re the ones doing all his work.? But he kept his mouth shut ? he needed a new well for the planting season. Mr. McCabe chatted on the front porch with Mrs. Clark, enjoying a cup of hot molasses and a piece of her sweet cornbread.
Meanwhile, the boys all flocked around one spot of dirt ? shouting that they?d found water and then started swinging at each other with the branches they?d been handed. The middle child, Mark Wayne claimed he was first one to get there s...
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