Those Indians knew a good thing...

My dad loved succotash. That juicy combination of lima beans, corn, lots of pepper and salt and milk or cream in a side dish was something my mother served fairly often. I liked it too. But when I tried to serve it to my growing family, it was greeted with a unanimous "yuk". So that left the menu...until this week when I made it for myself and realized how much I had missed it. In truth, it became even better  like so many dishes do when heated up the night following its return to my table. Dad really knew what good food was (he also liked Scrapple and Taylor's Pork Roll) and so did the American Indians when they introduced it to the Pilgrims way back then.