![]() ![]() A tinkerer of all things food, she began to think that she could make those sausage and cheese trays even prettier, even tastier for her new Arkansas friends and associates. Hill packed that entertaining inclination up with her when she relocated to Arkansas, along with her infatuation for wooden cutting boards. In Mississippi, the running joke among her pals was “sausage and cheese, sausage and cheese,” because every encounter among them had to include a tray of those two items. Few have the will to resist and even fewer want to. It’s well-known that one toe over the Mississippi border means you’ll have to endure two weeks of Spanx when you return - exceptional cooking is in the genetics down there. Her Mississippi roots are well reflected in her “Simply Delectables” assortment - chicken and pimento cheese salads that only a true Deep South cook can lay claim to. Hill brings to the table a solid corporate background as well as a passion for all things edible. The new kid on the block is Michelle Hill, the force behind the catering establishment Good Eatin’ Arkansas. So let your tootsies snuggle into your slippers and just focus some goodwill toward the egg nog. These small local businesses are still here to provide us some peace on earth this holiday season. Such hardworking, patient souls are indeed a very special breed. Long before there was Door Dash, curbside pickup, fast-food platters and grocery store holiday meals, there was - and still are - our hometown caterers. With all due respect to the celestial sort, we’re talking the earthbound kind at the moment. Thank goodness for the angels who have made it their business to take good care of us. ![]() As kit here means one’s equipment, to put the two together in the sense of everything that one has, equipment and personal possessions, seems reasonable.Earthbound Angels Spread Divine Deliciousness for the Masses Some writers suggest the latter comes from the English buddle, meaning a bundle or bunch (closely connected with bindle, as in the North American bindlestiff for a tramp). ![]() But it’s uncertain whether it’s the same word as the one in the whole kit and boodle. This is usually suggested as coming from the Dutch boedel, “inheritance, household effects possessions”. Sinclair Lewis used one of them in Main Street in 1920: “The whole kit and bilin’ of ’em are nothing in God’s world but socialism in disguise”.īoodle is familiar as the relatively modern US word for money illegally obtained, particularly linked to bribery and corruption. It seems that the whole kit and caboodle eventually won the linguistic battle for survival in the US because of that repeated “k” sound, though Dialect Notes in 1908 said that these other versions were still known from various parts of the country. It was also current in the US as the whole boodle from the 1830s. There are examples of similar phrases around the beginning of the nineteenth century, such as whole kit and boiling (or whole kit and bilin’) and whole kit and cargo, with the original very likely to have just been the whole kit - it’s recorded in this form in Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in 1785. It’s probable that the word was originally boodle, with the phrase being the whole kit and boodle, but that the initial sound “k” was added to boodle for euphony. It’s recorded in the US from the middle of the nineteenth century. It commonly turns up in the whole caboodle, meaning “the whole lot”. It means a collection of objects, sometimes of people. It’s been spelt down the years in many different ways, and these days is usually listed in dictionaries with an initial “c”. Q From Elma Brooks: What is the source of the whole kit and kaboodle?Ī Caboodle has a complicated history. ![]()
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