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I should simmer down about 'The Help'

There are so many bags packed in "The Help", the filmmakers should have just point a camera at a car trunk and let us fulfill our clean white.

Racism, resentment, resolution, relief. It's a lot to hang on a summer movie.

Fortunately for me, I just an issue with the book: The anachronisms cooking.

I'll cut the author Kathryn Stockett some slack on this. When she put her book in 1963, it was not written on his own experience of the South. Stockett up at least a decade later.

But could a former editor have advised him?

I was 4 in 1963.But growing up around a family kitchen-crazy South, I have memories enough to have a grasp on what was likely - and unlikely - in the mid-1960s.

I took the book on a trip last spring food. I shared a hotel room with a writer like food. She ended up laughing every time I cried on another mistake for food.

I started smoking when the girl was shopping for Thanksgiving Aibileen and planning how long it needed to brine the turkey.

Brine a turkey? In Jackson, Mississippi in 1963?

The method that gave us turkey brine is very old, but she was a part of Jewish food clean. As a recipe, turkey-brining didn't show up until the mid-1980s and didn't become common until well into the '90s. Chapel Hill food writer Jean Anderson remembers the first turkey-brining recipe she ever saw, because she included it in her book "Food of Portugal" in 1986.

Would Aibileen, who had been "cooking white Thanksgivings since Calvin Coolidge was president," really have brined her turkey?

Then I came across the flashback scene when Skeeter Phelan's father tries to install a ceiling fan in the kitchen for the comfort of the maid Constantine. What catches on fire?A roll of parchment paper blowing over a burner of the stove.

OK, professional bakers were baking paper. But the kitchen at home which has kept around? Wax paper, yes. He was constantly in the kitchen for packing sandwiches and lining the bottom of cake pans. Saran Wrap is certainly available by then. But the parchment paper?

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I should simmer down about 'The Help'

Would Aibileen, who had been "cooking white Thanksgivings since Calvin Coolidge was president," really have brined her turkey? Then I came across the flashback scene when Skeeter Phelan's father tries to install a ceiling fan in the kitchen for the



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