....at least in terms of food!I grew up about an hour's drive from Old Salem, which is in Winston Salem, North Carolina. My mom bought this cookbook when I was a teenager--and she wanted to duplicate the fabulous pastries from the Moravian Bakery near Old Salem.What a treat! The cakes and pies aside, this is real cooking before microwaves and canned beef broth and (shudder!) Applebees. There is chicken pot pie, biscuits, turnip greens, and an interesting chapter on Native American cooking in that area. This cookbook was used in our household so often, the pages were stained with flour and oil and whatever else was on your hands while you made pecan pie--for thanksgiving, of course!So I was a spoiled kid, and I have this book to thank for part of that. Go ahead and spend the time to make a dish, and turn on The Andy Griffith Show, and life will be so much better.