The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook

Aliske Webb

characters live there). It may be twenty-four hours from somewhere or 1,000 miles from

nowhere. Or even South of the Border.

And every town has the same sides. Every town has its uptown, downtown

Saturday night. Its ever musical east side, west side. Everywhere you find stray cats

roaming the alleys. Inevitably some good old boy is headed for the cheating side of

town, while someone else is coming back from Heartache Avenue to the lonely side

of town. There’s the seamy side of town, where Skid Row is, at the end of a dead end

street. You may see uptown girls waiting for their downtown men. There are girls from

the bad side of town, standing underneath the lamp post, and boys from the wrong side

of the tracks, having back street affairs.

That’s a lotta sides for one town.

You may have arrived there at the bus stop on the mean streets or at a liveried

abode on Easy street. You may have taken the straight and narrow or the long and

winding road. Or even the Yellow Brick Road. You may have been lead down the

primrose path or taken the road less travelled to the crossroad where fates are

decided. If you’re street smart, take the streeetcar named “Desire” back to the street

where you live on the sunny side of the street.

Wherever we journey away to, there are always blue highways that lead you to

the back roads by the rivers of your memories, ever smiling, ever gentle, on your mind.

And now to the stories and recipes.

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