Growing up in the country, I helped my family in our large garden and kitchen, harvesting our food, preserving it, and putting it up in my mother’s large food pantry. At the end of the gardening season, shelves were filled with the most colorful varieties of fruits and vegetables: green beans, red tomatoes, purple grape juice, yellow squash pickles, and orange spiced peaches, just to name a few. But what made it unique was the lacy shelf paper and a 3-inch edge that hung over the wooden shelf.
