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Nov
19
For those of you who know my mother, you’ll not be surprised to learn that she has made some major changes to her kitchen.
About a year ago she finally let go of her circa 1950’s six-burner double oven monolith stove (a really sleek white porcelain model, if I say so) that served her well for a couple of years and worked well in her back-to-the-bones-of-the-house remodel of her 1920’s kitchen. After complaining for quite some time of slow cooking times and irregular baking she marched herself down to Lowes and bought a brand new stainless steel oven with a glass cooktop. It was fancy. It cooked well. It was horribly out of place in her kitchen.
I heard good things about the quality of her new stove and I hear that Andy loves having it in his kitchen now. Mom bought a new toy at an estate sale a couple of weeks ago. For a couple of hundred bucks she brought home a mint condition Frigidaire Flair circa 1962 in oh-so mod brown. When she described this to me on the phone I had to work hard to sound enthusiastic, because it sounded like a train wreck. But now that I’ve seen it in person and tasted it’s handiwork with our Thanksgiving dinner, I’m thoroughly impressed. It cooks like new and looks right at home.
This is what it looks like:
Yes, those are eye-level glass double ovens. Yes that is a cooktop that goes in and out of sight like a kitchen drawer.
Finally, this stove comes with a history. There once was a woman named Olajean who was an Elkin icon. She was married to Roy, of Roy’s Restaurant fame. Olajean made a chocolate pie that was, without doubt, the best pie anyone had ever eaten, We’ve all eaten it and everyone remembers it. Sadly Olajean died recently. And so did her pies. She took her secret recipe to the grave - not even her children have it. But this magnificent stove is witness to what is, perhaps, Pie Nirvana. We keep looking in it’s base cabinet to see if maybe she left a scrap of paper down there…
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your mom is awesome. such a visionary.
happy gobbling. *smooches*