and I am 78 years old living in both Iowa and
Texas. My life has been changed since my husband passed away after a long
illness in March 2003. I am now taking time to spend with my writing. I have an
Internet Web site I have been writing on since 1999 called
www.epinions.com/user-grandgram,
that is how you can find me on epinions' website. I wrote a review back in
October 2, 2000 called “Cinnamon Spice and all that’s Nice” that Rochelle Beach
found in her Internet search of Cinnamon. She e-mailed me as she thought it
would make a nice book. She gave me her web site of her wonderful cinnamon items
and I told her I already had a book on Cinnamon History.
The book “The Cinnamon Stick Tales of the Spice Trade” was a project of a
Writing Course I was taking back in 1989. It was my love of cinnamon and the
many ways it could be used that prompted the book. I felt since children love
this spice so much I should write the history of spices as a Social Studies
book. Well the book was not published then until I received an e-mail from
Rochelle Beach and decided Why Not!
I rewrote the book and added many suggestions on what you can do with
cinnamon and spices. We thought at first to make small pamphlets of each section
of the book but the history needed to be in one book. I did a search of the
Internet to find a publisher and found
http://www.booklocker.com which
publishes books completely edited and formatted to a small size book.
If you are interested in checking out more about this book and how to
purchase it please my web site
www.booksbyletta.com/TheCinnamonStick.html with samples of what is in the
book including pictures and recipes.
Letta Meinen
lmeinen@mchsi.com
Just a small postscript from Me (Rochelle) I was totally surprised and
honored to receive an autographed copy of Letta's book earlier this year as I
read through it I found that she graciously included a small write up about
Cinna-Minnies and included a picture of the Cinnamon doll that I made for her.
She also honored me when she wrote a wonderful review about our website and had
it posted at www.epinions.com.
Thanks Letta!
Rochelle
