Carla Emery: Author of the Old Fashioned Recipe Book
(Page 12 of 17)
May/June 1975
By the Mother Earth News editors
EMERY: Oh we do the multiplication tables as we drive down the road. You know. . . "six times one is six, six times two is twelve". And we learn a lot of geography. "OK, what state are we in?" Nobody knows. "What state has four eyes?" "MISSISSIPPI!" "Right. Let's spell it." "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I." "OK. We'll be in Tennessee soon. We were in Texas yesterday. What's the capital of Texas?" And they all answer. "What's the capital of Colorado . . . where you saw the dome?" And they answer that. I try to teach as we roll down the road and it's fun.
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We do all the sights, too, when we have time to play tourist. The children are looking forward so much to Washington, D.C. because we're going to do the Lincoln Monument and the Capitol. And when we get to New York I've promised them a trip to the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. You know they have to get something out of this too. If all they could do is just sit in the car, they'd be kind of unhappy kids.
PLOWBOY: What type of audience do you try to reach when you're doing radio shows and making TV appearances?
EMERY: Anybody! I just do whatever Julaine has for me to do. I got on a black radio station in Chattanooga and the gentleman there loved the book and said it was obviously written for poor people. He said that some of the black churches in Chattanooga were going to use the Old Fashioned Recipe Book for fundraising and I was just delighted.
Then in Denver I was interviewed on a station that plays classical music—you know, concerts and opera—all day and the cultural people in Denver got very interested in me. And the rock stations took me up in Kansas City. There were actually two rock stations giving away copies of the Recipe Book to contest winners at once in Kansas City and I was very popular on long, late-night talk shows there. So I'll talk to any audience I can reach.
PLOWBOY: Have you done any of the big national television shows?
EMERY: Not yet. Julaine is trying but we haven't landed any of them yet. I did do a pre-appearance interview for the Johnny Carson program but that was pretty much a disaster.
PLOWBOY: Why?
EMERY: Well I only have one good dress, you know, and—just as I was getting ready to put it on out in the parking lot—-Luke, my three-year-old, spilled a bowl of oatmeal right in the middle of it. So I went in in my old clothes and there was this brisk, intelligent, sharp, manicured young man who had been told—since I was a nobody and we had to have an angle to get me that far—that I was a comedienne.
PLOWBOY: Did you make him laugh?
EMERY: Only once. When I told him I had caused a traffic jam in Hollywood and he asked why and I said it was because I was beating my head on the steering wheel. I had the most awful times in that L.A. traffic, you know.
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