Eat Something! is part cookbook part memoir featuring recipes passed from Mother to daughter to granddaughter. The old-fashioned recipes have been updated to reflect actual techniques, modern verbiage, and step by step instructions on how to create these classics. This collection of recipes depicts farmhouse cooking using what’s available and trends to the convenience foods available at the time. Most recipes are either quick to prepare or suited to all-day cooking while chores and work are being done.
The book features photos of the Funk family extending from formal family photos of Fern’s grandmother and her daughters in the late 19th century to a photo taken of Anne being held by her grandmother in about 1978. It also features scanned images of the original hand written recipes along with photographs of the finished products. List of ingredients have been turned into step by step recipes.