Our Mom Loved to Cook
...Kaye Gammack was renowned for her dinner parties
Welcome to Kaye Gammack’s Secret Sauce
From our family kitchen
Over lunch at the bar at Waterfront Seafood, I struck up a conversation with a couple from Polk City.
One conversational thread led to another, and the woman mentioned she had a relative who once owned a restaurant in Polk City. Former customers still rave about a dish served there and ask her for the recipe. She declines to share it. The restaurant is gone, and I wondered what would happen to the mysterious ingredient list. She shrugged, leaving me wondering: Would this favorite dish just disappear?
My mom, Kaye Gammack, never understood why people wouldn’t share recipes and considered it a badge of honor to be asked.
That got me thinking, so I asked my husband Richard what he thought about starting a new column with stories about mom and her dinner parties. The stories will be free to all Kaye Gammack’s Table subscribers, but only those who becom…