Articles about 'Food Memories'
February 6th, 2012
My daughter’s class had a multicultural celebration recently where each kid interviewed a relative about a recipe that’s been handed down in the family. My daughter interviewed my Mom about her manicotti recipe. Here’s part of what she learned:
"Manicotti is from Italy, and it’s been in my family since 1810. It was passed down from...
September 19th, 2010
It all started with cooking…
There have always been those things I didn’t cook. One day, I decided to start to try cooking those things on the “can’t cook” list existing deep in the recesses of my brain.
Some of these items were: miso soup, cakes and icing made totally from scratch, bouillabaisse, clams on the half...
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January 9th, 2010
Monique of Mama Lisa’s World in France sent me this photo of a dish many French people eat every year in honor of the New Year. It’s sausages and lentils – "saucisse et lentilles". The lentils are symbolic of money and prosperity because they’re round like coins. The pork in the soup is also...
December 6th, 2009
Lin wrote to me about the December holidays in Indonesia…
When I was a kid, about one third of my neighbors were Christian (Catholic, Protestant, Advent etc). Before Christmas, we kids ‘helped’ them prepare their houses for Christmas (by tasting their cookies, cakes, and their traditional cuisines/meals, decorating their houses and Christmas trees etc.). What...
October 28th, 2009
It’s fascinating to me how different foods can bring back memories. I think that’s why I loved the book and movie “Like Water for Chocolate” so much.
Bananas will always remind me of specific times and people:
In Infancy: I distinctly remember the smell of banana baby food – it reminds me of being a very...
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