if you use pancake mix and if you use aunt jamima pancake mix, aunt jamima today looks like a girlfriend. she looks like she shops at macy's, she's got pearls, she looks like she's on the church council. [laughter] what i discovered again in this period from one of my uncles by accident in a casual conversation is that my grandmother worked for a time as an itinerant aunt jamima. she traveled throughout the midwest, dressed up and head scarf and a hoopskirt selling pancake mix at a time when convenient cooking was not the norm, add water and stir was new at the time, and my mother was so angry that my uncvle would say this, she didn't like this period of my grandmother's life and i couldn't let it go. what i discovered is that my grandmother had earned a good deal of money doing this and that there were aunt jemimas all across the country. texas is a big state says it once did and sometimes worked in oklahoma. what i discovered my grandmother's case i got lucky if and newspaper clippings of her work under the headline essentially aunt jemima is coming to mind to read a picture of my gran