Peach Cobbler

Three Unrelated thoughts:

1. Why is a certain sort of pie known as a "peach cobbler"? What is the connection between that sort of "cobbler" and someone who repairs shoes?

The Oxford English Dictionary tells me that the shoe-mending sense is much older than any culinary sense. One early culinary use is to be found in Washington Irving's History of New York, as "Knickerbocker," (1809), where Irving makes reference to "the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cock-tail, stone-fence, and sherry-cobbler."

My guess is that the sherry-cobler came to be called that simply because the sherry was filled out, or if you will "mended," with the other ingredients thereof. [An orange slice, cracked ice, and other materials as per bartender's favorite variant.] From such usage, "cobbler" as a suffix came to mean something like "hybrid." And from there to a peach cobbler -- not every peach pie is a cobbler -- some hybridization ("mending"?) continues to be involved.

2. This day in history. August 6, 1932 was the day that Richard Hollingshead Jr patented his idea for a drive-in movie theatre. The patent would be declared invalid in 1950s, which is why the '50s remain associated in popular lore with the drive-in theatre. Nobody owned the idea anymore, and they were cheap to setup, so lots of entrepreneurs did so, coast to coast.

3. Brigadoon.

Having recently shared a automobile excursion with a fellow fan of the musical theatre (and one skeptic), I was reminded in particular of the classic Brigadoon. Here, then, for no other reason, is a link to the trailer for the 1954 movie version of the classic Lerner and Loewe musical.

Often shown, I would expect, in those drive-ins.

This has been something of a cock-tail of a blog entry, or stone-fence or sherry-cobbler for that matter.