
As I said, I have only read three pages, but it flows like a memoir only more interesting. And the tone and language and the recipes tug at my southern heart strings. Even the title does that. One of my favorite sounds as a child was the sound of my grandmother's screen door smacking the wood frame as someone would enter the house and shout, "Hey." And one of my favorite taste memories is of sweet tea drunk from a Ball jar while sitting just the other side of that screen door. I'm going to like this book, I believe, even if I never cook a thing from it besides the lemon pie.
But here's what I miss already? I can't dog-ear the pages or stick ragged bookmarks in the pages I want to come back to or slop ingredients on it. I suspect if I were slop Karo syrup, cornbread batter or pimentos on my iPad, I'd have more than a mess to deal with. And I can't put the book on the shelf with the other cookbooks I have. And I have many of them. See, here are the ones I use most often (note; there are six Ina Garten books to the right of these). I keep them on a shelf above my washer and dryer just steps away from the kitchen:





I won't be able to do that with my digital copy of Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, but I'm willing to see if there are new and unimagined benefits to owning it on an iPad. We'll see.
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You really must get a hard copy of Screen Doors and Sweet Tea because a cookbook isn't a cookbook unless it is dog-eared and stained with experimental recipe detritus.
My books are full of marginalia and pictures that I have added, which are priceless and could not be appreciated in an electronic book. Just like you said, how could I take a look at the beautiful displays of my books, grab them and feel them through one of those electronic books??? I am sure I will get one of them, for other reasons, but I will keep my collection and add more extraordinary books to it!!!
Ana Raquel