I was Suffering from Severe Yamnesia

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I was Suffering from Severe Yamnesia - It all started for me back in 1984. Back then I was working with a small company in the book publishing business. (Not that I knew anything about book publishing...) One of the publisher's authors was a nice old gal named Dauphen Johnson. For one reason or another she had gone queer for developing cooking recipes involving the use of sweet potatoes and yams. That led to her compiling her recipes and putting the recipes together with lots of attractive hand-drawn illustrations to make up the innards of a recipe book all about yams - that bright orange-color, sweet and starchy tuber that folks think of in the way of a yam pie around the holidays. The big boss of the publishing house thought most highly of Dauphen's Yam cookbook. Although the boss was a bona fide religious nut, he came up with a rather profane title for Dauphen's Yam cookbook - "A Yam Good Cookbook." (Not at all a bad name for that recipe book, by the way...) Not content to produce a yam-based cookbook with a catchy title, the publisher decided that the cookbook itself should be of small dimensions as to height and width, but that it should be relatively thick from front to back. So as to accomplish that type of construction, he had to increase the number of pages within. He accomplished his thickness goal by adding an author-addressed postcard in between each recipe in the book and by having each recipe's artwork be on a separate page, too. Oh, yes, that made the yam cookbook plenty thick - probably three inches or so - and a real nightmare to bind together in the form of a wee little (but very thick) book. The "why" of all of those postcards was never fully explained to anyone, not the publishing company workers nor the author of the recipe book. I believe that the company sold at least several of those yam cookbooks, and I never did hear that anyone ever died from eating yam stuff cooked according to Ms Dauphen's recipes. Until today, I had a severe case of yamnesia. That recipe book and Dauphen Johnson, its author, had been long ago forgotten by me. What brought those back into my thinking today - and why I put this discussion together for my Mill Otter (My Lotter) buddies - is, of course, very, very interesting. There is only one problem. I have forgotten why I forgot the yam book in the first place and why I remembered it. Here is a link to get you some more information about "A Yam Good Cookbook" and maybe a way for you to obtain a copy of the book. The link explains about joining something, but I was too busy trying to remember stuff such that I did not bother to join up and book load down. Have fun if that is what you decide to do. The name of the publishing company, by the way, was "Larksdale Publishers," and it was located in Houston, Texas USA. * * * * * * * * * * Image source: Pixabay dot com * * * * * * * * * *