Every Appalachian Grandmother Had This Kitchen Drawer — Could You Name What Was In It? (I Kept Mine)

🔗 97 secrets every Appalachian grandmother kept in her kitchen. How many still live in yours? https://burlsizemore.com/her-kitchen There is a drawer in my kitchen that sticks every time I pull it. It came out of my grandmother's kitchen table, the one she cooked at for more than fifty years, and I carried it home under my arm the day they took her house down. Every grandmother in these mountains had a drawer just like it. Sit down with me and see how many of these you can name before I do. A flat round tin with a pretty girl on the lid. A ball of rubber bands as big as a softball. A little brown bottle with a glass wand that dripped red. A blue jar you could smell across the room. A cardboard fan on a stick. A key as long as my finger. A square of silver folded a dozen times. A deck of cards with no faces. A white clay bird with its mouth open. A wire hoop on a wooden handle. A stack of little green books. A box of half burned candles. And a jar that rattled when you shook it. One of those things did not fit a single lock in her house, and the summer I found out what it opened, I watched her do something I have never forgotten. My grandmother carried her whole kitchen in her head, and almost none of it was ever written down. So I put ninety seven of her secrets on paper, with the story behind each one and a recipe to cook it by. Tonight, open the oldest drawer in your kitchen. Hold the oldest thing in it, and tell somebody younger whose it was. https://burlsizemore.com/her-kitchen