Old Books on Cooking

GreenStick85

GreenStick85

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I took some time while waiting on dinner to be ready to check out some books at a local second hand store. Came upon several older books(70's 80's) about marijuana and cooking. I bought Adam Gottlieb's the art and science of cooking with cannabis. Leafing through this thing, pun unintended, there are a lot of recipes talking about leaf. It's amazing when these books are written, I have no idea how to put this in perspective. When folks got their weed back in this time, was it more leaf and flower? Less weighed out but more by eye? I'm not going to skip the notion that these books were made with the intention or assumption that the buyer would have lots of their own grow to supply for cooking.
Seems like it was easier to grow back in those times. I never lived to see it. Luckily I am friends with an old deaf hippie who loves Grateful Dead and all. Definitely had his fair share of experiences to tell me. He grew his own but he tells me weed and hash was different then than what it is now.
I'm looking at several quantities and measurements, millions of questions go through because the book talks of pot butter that has 5-10 grams per teaspoon. Seems excessive by our standard of pot. THC was recorded to have 5 percent THC but that stat was brought on by tons of Mexican Schwag and brick coming in the U.S. And then some primo pot from...??? Someone talk to me about this, what was that pot you liked a lot back then???
 
vostok

vostok

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Pot these days is concentrated on yield as back then it was more on flavors that we now call terpes or 'profile'

back then getting rid of excess leaves is just the same hassle now as back then ..we compost them, others eat them

its true ..its not so fun now, back then dodging cops ..rippers and mold was the issue ..still true now, but a whole new market has grown up

which in truth is 99% bullshit, tents, lights, venting, feminized, clones...the list is endless

I started in 1974, with 4 foot fluorescent shop lights hanging from a chain in a closet, and its still a viable practice to this day

only in the last few years has the thc gone thru the roof, already we see 30% thc on many strains advertised on HT

this only gonna make the anti weed peeps even more reluctant to legalize elsewhere

Like a lot of old growers I am set in my ways, do I want to toke a 66% THC joint, no!! not really

if I did I'd have to ask myself .....WHY..?
 
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