Louise Bennett Weaver:
Born: 10 January 1889 Flandreau South Dakota, US
Died:
November 1971, Newton, Masschusetts, US. American writer best known for her cookbooks, most notably A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband with Bettina’s Best Recipes (1917), which she co-wrote with Helen Cowles LeCron. The book blends recipes with a fictional narrative, opening with newlyweds Bettina and Bob returning home from their honeymoon to set up house together.
The market is full of delights in July — fresh vegetables, berries, red cherries for pie!
There’s no hidden or figurative meaning here — it’s meant literally, as a cheerful bit of verse to set the mood for the July chapter. It’s celebrating high summer at the market: this is peak season for produce, so shoppers find abundant fresh vegetables and berries, with cherries especially plentiful and ripe — perfect timing for a cherry pie, a classic use for the fruit when it’s at its best and cheapest.
Source & author:
“The market is full of delights in July: Fresh vegetables, berries, red cherries for pie!” is credited to Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron, in the chapter “July,” from their 1917 cookbook “A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband with Bettina’s Best Recipes.”
The book was a popular early-20th-century American cookbook written as a kind of fictionalized narrative — “Bettina,” a young bride, learns to cook and keep house through the months of the year, with each chapter/month opening with a little seasonal rhyme like this one before diving into recipes and menus.
Cold and snowy February does seem slow and trying, very. Still, a month made gay by Cupid never could be wholly stupid.
