META H. GIVEN

Sexy, imagination, growth

Economy is always having it's issues about every 10 years or so.  We all know about difficulties, heartbreaks, growth, accomplishments. Every person I have ever met or read about has all of these and so much more. Sometimes we leave things out when writing a book because we are concerned about our perceptions - not of ourselves, but of others judging us and we all do it.  Many of us can't admit it or even realize we are doing.

Every employer does it, every co-worker does it, every family member does it - but it's a dirty little secret. One we use against each other to gain power, fame, wealth. However, we could still have all of our integrity if we looked at the positive of our fellow human race - I prefer chocolate to - very few people are this or that - they are many things and most of all trying to make a living, so they and their family do not have to live without.

Meta Given lived in a world much the same as we experience today.  She was a woman, and women did not belong in business, positions of power, out in public when pregnant. We progressively moved into acceptance of this latter behavior.  Meta Hortense Given (MHG) knew all about that power. 

Her first career was Teaching which she started at 14. She had finished the 8th grade. She was eligible to take the Elementary/Grammar School grades level. It was thought in the day that if you had taken the class then you could teach the class.  Eventually, with women getting public educations, instead of private or home schooled they began to thrust for more, hence the "Normal" School which began to spring up from the east coast to the west and everywhere in-between. 79% of the normal school participants were women. A portion of those women went on the Colleges and Universities where they could get accepted and eventually all female colleges began to spring up.

 

MHG was one of those women who sought more and more education and they were not afraid to augment education by being an autodidact like Leonardo da Vinci's got nothing on us. She got a full education about home duties as toting the water, planting and tending the garden, crop gathering for the home garden as well as the farm business harvest. She had a younger sister so she knew about taking care of children, and she could manage food like a chef. 

At the age of 9 Meta H. Given cooked a meal for her father and the farm hands as they were bringing in the crop. During one of their trips, they managed to run over a turkey which MHG proceeded to make into roast turkey. 

Now this particular chore requires a whole lot more information than they turned it into roast turkey, don't you think? I know I believe it deserves its own chapter. Someone or somehow a turkey is killed, usually it is by someone, and they use a bullet possible buckshot from a shotgun. Walking to and from the place where the birds are, then usually the home keeper prepares the bird by bleeding, gutting, defeather and cut up into the proper quarters so the meat is determined by white and dark (as the dark is the juiciest) but for some reason people prefer the white and try all kinds of cookery tricks to make it juicy and tender.

Even still hunting is a whole subject unto itself. I have never hunted personally, but I do know how to fire a rifle .22 or .33. 

Anyway, I wrote MHG's biography and there is so much detail in the book, it is recommended to get the book either free off Amazon Kindle unlimited, or Amazon Paperback and there is also the Hardcover which is selling currently on E-bay with one of her cookbooks "Modern Family" 1942.