Comments on: A Christmas Tradition for More Than 30 Years

By: Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:07:04 +0000

I have known Martha (Grace) and Chrys for 45 years and I have enjoyed their cooking many times other than the Christmas holidays. They are both wonderful master chefs. However, I do love the Christmas sweets that they make and I usually get a nice assortment when I see them over the Christmas holidays. I love being with them both and I still feel like I am part of their families.

By: Martha Grace

Martha Grace — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:22:45 +0000

Spanish Trace East was indeed in College Park! We had some great times there back in the day…..

By: JT

JT — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:46:17 +0000

I have always felt slighted having a birthday before Christmas until I got on the list for the amazing assortment of Chrys/Grace act of love goodies which I receive on my birthday. But wait a minute. People get those for Christmas and I get them for birthday/Christmas? Shouldn’t I be getting 2 act of love cookie tins? Just kidding although it would save me having to burrow into other friends’ gifts to find the toffee.

Lovely story and lovelier tradition, Grace, although I am a bit nervous about the word “stewardesses.”

By: Beth Nelson

Beth Nelson — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:11:58 +0000

Homemade cheese straws – nothing better! You should share your recipes.

By: Mary Lee (aka Bootsie Lucas)

Mary Lee (aka Bootsie Lucas) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:41:42 +0000

Anxiously awaiting those Mexican wedding cakes…. Yum!

By: Melinda Ennis

Melinda Ennis — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:34:20 +0000

As a beneficiary of your labors for many years now, I can only say bless you both!
It would not be truly Christmas at our house without that wonderful assortment of holiday goodies you bake each year. It was lovely to read about the birth of your great tradition.

By: Michael Garbutt

Michael Garbutt — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:16:26 +0000

This is almost as good as “Twas the Night Before Christmas”! I can personally vouch for all the hard work you ladies do each Christmas as I’ve seen you in action. So many people enjoy the fruits of your labor that I’m surprised you don’t cook for a solid month.
And that Eugene: only he could promote your Cheese Straws which were guaranteed to blow your head off.
Nice to know that some traditions carry on…

By: bobby wallace

bobby wallace — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:00:08 +0000

Very nice…..I really enjoyed it…..

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:11:00 +0000

i love this! what a treasured tradition — makes me hungry to read!!

By: Mary Civille

Mary Civille — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:02:28 +0000

Cooking together is one of the joys of any relationship and doing it for as long as you two have, and as successfully, means your productions are full of love. I’d rethink the wine prohibition, tho’. Janet, I got a cookie press like you used over 50 years ago as a Christmas present; will be using it next week for spritz and cheese straws.

By: Janet Ward

Janet Ward — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:47:07 +0000

Oh, my! I never knew y’all lived at STE. Wasn’t that in College Park, my old stomping grounds? And my dad was in Cam Ranh Bay in 1967-68. He left a wife and seven kids in Fernandina when he did his tour. We would get letters from him that mentioned birds that he’d seen and people he’d met. He was trying to, I’m sure, allay whatever fears my mom had about him being in Viet Nam, but I remember all of us thinking, “Wow. I wish we could be there.”

By: Billy Howard

Billy Howard — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:52:34 +0000

Lovely, and I want some of those HOT cheese straws!