On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 09:11:28 -0400, "Tomsic" wrote:

I remember reading articles about famous restaurant chefs. Some of them
said, proudly, that they "only cooked in copper pots". On our farm, my
mother made jam, apple butter, boiled sweet corn and rendered lard in a
large copper pot over an open fire. That was 65 years ago. No one in our
family of 5 was afflicted with Alzheimers or dementia as they aged.

Tomsic

I interviewed some ancestors raised on a farm. They actually had a
half-dozen eggs for breakfast, fried bacon, biscuits and gravy - stuff
folks say will kill you.

They lived a long healthy life. When asked what they ate in 1921,
moving to another state - the answer was "anything we could kill!"

Tough and rugged people born on a farm.