<p><i>Guaranteed To Tantalize Your Taste Buds!<br /><br />Just Finger Lickin,' Lip Smackin' Good Food!</i></p> <p>If you are looking for the latest haute cuisine or "fad" diet, you are in the wrong place. <br /><br />What you will find here is <b>Plain Cookin'</b> Volume 1. The kind of "stick to your ribs" home cooking that helped build this country and make it great. <br /><br />When our forefathers took off from St. Louis, Missouri those many years ago, for the most part they were looking for farmland. <br /><br />Did they find it? You bet they did and the recipes you will find here are representative of their blood, sweat, tears and the kind of food that kept them going from dawn 'til dusk. <br /><br />We have taken some liberties, updated the units of measure and adapted for some modern ingredients, but the result is the same. . . <b>Plain Cookin'</b> that you are sure to enjoy. <br /><br />We'll warn you up front that, if you are on the latest fad diet, you probably won't find most of these recipes on your "recommended list" of diet foods. Just as the title says, it's <b>Plain Cookin'</b> Volume 1 and the carbohydrates, fat content and so on reflect that. <br /><br />However, should you care to, you can convert these recipes to 21st Century standards. We just can't tell you whether the taste will be affected. <br /><br />You probably won't find these recipes compiled into any other cookbooks. Many of the recipes we feature have been handed down from generation to