George leonard herter biography sample

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  • The cult figure George Leonard Herter “ran a sporting-goods store in Waseca, Minnesota, by day and self-published bizarre cookbooks, travel guides, and hunting.
  • He was born in 1571 and died in 1630.

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    I flew back to Seattle this week to help settle my father’s affairs. Sorting through his books I kept an eye out for anything out of the ordinary but didn’t find much. When I was a kid, the mainstays of the living room bookshelves were titles from the Book of the Month Club. There were a few exceptions, most notably several Grove Press hardback editions of Henry Miller–the Tropics and Black Spring, which were probably considered hot stuff and discussed with arched eyebrows in the mess.

    Then I happened to glance up at the cookbooks over the fridge and spotted the distinctive metallic gold spines of Herter’s Bull Cook books and knew I’d struck gold (pardon the pun).

    My dad went through a big huntin’ and fishin’ period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and one thing you could always find in the reading basket next to his chair was a copy of the latest Herter’s catalog. Herter’s was a big mail-order hunting and fishing goods sto

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    Legal name
    Herter, George Leonard
    Birthdate
    1911-05-24
    Date of death
    1994-07-05
    Gender
    male
    Nationality
    USA
    Birthplace
    Waseca, Minnesota, USA
    Place of death
    St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
    Places of residence
    Waseca, Minnesota, USA
    Relationships
    Herter, Berthe E. (wife)
    Short biography
    Professional old coot and misognyist. Also owned and operated Herter's, a company famous for it's two inch thick catalogs filled with everything a real man needed for being outdoors.

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    A combination historical account, cookbook, guide to preserving foods, survival manual, travel guide and compendium of several very funny (possibly invented) anecdotes. Get it for unusual recipes like marigold wine, Gethsemene beef, Swedish muskrat,

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    I was fortunate to be able to spend three weeks at the family lake house in northwestern Michigan in August. My father passed away in 2009, but his imprint is still palpable there on the lake—nowhere more strongly than on the bookshelves.

    My son John and his wife Julie were able to join us for one of our weeks. John’s an amazing, intuitive, creative cook. He’s also strongly attracted to Old Things, so, for example, he snagged and regularly wears most of my father’s outerwear including an enormous ’70s-era Eddie Bauer winter parka and a tired out, ugly-as-sin L.L. Bean fleece.

    At the intersection of cooking and Old Things, John has an unsurprising fascination with legacy recipes, such as (grandfather) Papa Tom’s Peach Cobbler, which he’s tweaked to a state of perfection. He likewise loves heirloom kitchen gear, and again has snagged a number of family classics, some dating back to almost to WW2, including Papa Tom’s biscuit cutter and

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