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    Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found
    Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found
    Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found
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    Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found

    By Bill Keaggy

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    If we are what we eat, then this book reveals deep truths about the average American (not to mention more mundane truths like a surprising number of people enjoy onions, and for most people, mayonnaise is very, very difficult to spell). Milk, Eggs, Vodka is a celebration of the humble grocery list. Almost anyone will find themselves engrossed in this voyeuristic look into everyday lifeless than healthy lists, lists for parties, lists with personal and often odd annotations on them...and the list of lists goes on. Besides over 150 found lists, the book also includes short essays on collecting, shopping, eating, and list making. Some of the lists will even include recipes that can be made from the ingredients on the list!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateMar 15, 2011
    ISBN9781440312052
    Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found

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      Milk Eggs Vodka - Bill Keaggy

      MILK

      EGGS

      VODKA

      grocery lists

      lost and found

      BILL KEAGGY

      MILK EGGS VODKA. Copyright © 2007 by Bill Keaggy. Printed in Singapore. All rights reserved. No other part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by HOW Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 57 Littlefield Street, Avon, MA 02322 (800) 289-0963. First paperback edition, 2011.

      15 14 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1

      Distributed in Canada by Fraser Direct, 100 Armstrong Avenue, Georgetown, Ontario, Canada L7G 5S4, Tel: (905) 877-4411. Distributed in the U.K and Europe by F+W Media International, Brunel House, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 4PU, England. Tel: (+44) 1626-323200, Fax: (+44) 1626-323319. E-mail: postmaster@ davidandcharles.co.uk. Distributed in Australia by Capricorn Link, P.O. Box 704, Windsor, NSW 2756 Australia, Tel: (02) 4577-3555.

      The food facts that appear on the pages of this book were adapted primarily from Chef James T. Ehler’s web site, www.foodreference.com, and reprinted here with his permission.

      Consistent with the random manner in which they were found, the shopping lists in this book are presented anonymously, except where noted and with permission. That said, no connections to any individual persons or businesses are stated or implied regardless of how the lists are displayed. Full names and other identifiable pieces of information about the authors of these found lists have been discreetly cropped out.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-58180-941-1

      ISBN-10: 1-4403-1201-X

      Edited by: Amy Schell Designed by: Grace Ring media Production coordinated by: Greg Nock

      Author photo by Liam Keaggy. Photograph on page 130 by Dalyce E. Burgess. Photographs on page 79 by Bill Keaggy. Photographs on pages 216, 218, 220, 222, and 224 by Jerry Naunheim, Jr.

      DEDICATION

      To Liam (who likes pickles), Sorena (who likes bananas), Diane (who likes goat cheese), Dad (who likes Bud Light) and Mom (who likes Gatorade)—from me (who likes corn dogs).

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      A sincere thank you to: my family, for putting up with (and enjoying) my odd hobbies and interests; my parents, for putting up with (and encouraging) my odd hobbies and interests; my publisher, for being interested in (and publishing) my odd hobbies and interests; and you, for picking up this book and—I hope—pursuing some odd hobbies and interests of your own.

      The Grocery List Collection wouldn’t be what it is without the following people. Gigantic thank yous go to: Mary-Margaret Ries, Nancy Bea Miller, Susan Everett, Tara Young, M.K.M., Kathy Keaggy Smith and Jeff Appel. I’d also like to thank everyone who has contributed to the collection since it started ten years ago. There are too many of you to list here but I am grateful for your help. All of you are part of this book, whether your list made it in or not. Thank you!

      And these good folks helped me out with this project in one indispensable way or another: Diane Keaggy, Rosanne Toroian, James T. Ehler, Ben Kiel, Jerry Naunheim, Jr., Mark Lewman, Tucker Shaw, Kitty Fipilele, Michael A. Kahn, Chuck Groth, Kimberly Williams, Rudy Charisma, Jennifer Jacobberger, Michelle Lofthus, Teresa Stewart Sitz, Don from Maryland, Rose McKee, Kristine Rakowsky, Jim Coudal, Dalyce E. Burgess and Jeffrey Yamaguchi. Thank you.

      And of course, thanks to the talented folks at F+W, who realized how much fun scraps of paper and smart-ass comments can be: Megan Patrick, Amy Schell, Grace Ring, Suzanne Lucas and the rest of the crew.

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Bill Keaggy is a collector, maker and breaker of things. He has a healthy appreciation for the beauty and absurdity in small things forgotten: Chairs tossed in alleys, papers found in old books, trees growing out of abandoned buildings and, of course, grocery lists left in shopping carts. His projects are all about the life behind the things people leave behind.

      His web sites, Keaggy.com and Grocerylists.org, have been described as genius, useless, inspiring, stupid, beautiful, profound and a complete waste of time. An Ohio native, he lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Diane and their children Liam and Sorena.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction

      1. Just Plain Funny

      2. Emphasis!

      3. Chides and Asides

      4. Paaar-ty!

      5. Sad Grocery Lists

      6. Badd Spellrs

      7. The Grocer’s Apostrophe

      8. Creative Recycling

      9. Doodles and Noodles

      10. Just One Thing

      11. You’re So Vague

      12. Organized Lists

      13. Ye Olde Style

      14. Planet of Food

      15. Healthy (and Hygienic) Lists

      16. Eating Wrong

      17. Unsure of Myself

      18. Other Lists

      19. All-American Lists

      20. What’s Cookin’?

      Epilogue

      Index

      Foreword

      My grandfather was an inveterate list-maker. He’d write something down on a scrap of paper and would never look at it again. For him, the physical act of writing was enough to elevate the note to a more permanent status in his mind. He’d say, I’m not writing this down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.

      The authors of the grocery lists in this collection certainly needed to remember something now. The importance of the lists themselves however, is something less than permanent, as evidenced by the fact that thousands of them have been casually discarded for Bill Keaggy and his colleagues to scoop up and collect. Lucky for us.

      I’ve been watching Bill from afar as both his collection and his obsession have grown. What strikes me as most important about these lists is not really the people who wrote them, or what’s on them, or even the people who found them. What is interesting to me is how, upon seeing a list for the first time, we immediately start to imagine the story behind it. It’s like joining a movie halfway through. We can’t help but start to piece together a narrative from these barest of outlines, imagining what happened before the list was made and more frequently, what happened after the shopping was complete. As I made my way through this book for the first time, I felt as if I were reading a highly compact anthology of short stories.

      Most of the time we write grocery lists to and for ourselves. They’re highly personal that way, more like diaries than like postcards. They’re meant for our own eyes only and they’re written in a shorthand that mimics the way we think. (And for some of these lists, that’s a pretty scary thought.)

      As objects they’re interesting too, and a fairly sad commentary on the state of American penmanship. But more than anything else, it’s the collecting of all

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