[JamesWilson]

I thought you might enjoy this article.

How could I not? I love my work and look like a Budda. ;-)

[AnAmericanMother]

Then I'll just keep doing them the way you do and my sainted grandmother did (rest her soul; she died in '73).

I just learned how to make paté briseé, and I'm having fun using it for all sorts of unlikely things (like chicken pot pie a la Rich's Magnolia Room, etc.) My pies are NOT things of beauty, but they taste o.k. (at least no-one around here ever complains.) I like the flour/butter-crusts, but my husband likes the crumb crust (because Key Lime pie is his favorite.)

I'm so glad somebody else still likes old fashioned cooking! This nouvelle cuisine stuff gives me the heebie jeebies. As Julia Child said, "You just know somebody's hands have been all over it." :-D