"Mom, the kitchen is complicated"

I am struggling with things in the kitchen that my mother never even thought of. She did not have to worry about recalls. She did not have to sanitize her cutting board. Notice she only had one cutting board.  She never had to wash her hands every time she touched a chicken. She never washed her vegetables before she stored them in her refrigerator. All she ever did was cook three meals a day and deserts a few times a week.

I have written about keeping foods safe. Just read an article about keeping your kitchen pathogen free in the New York Times. And now I am afraid to cook anything and more importantly eat anything in my own kitchen.

I want some one to tell me what the difference is between the foods I grew up with and the foods I feed my family today????  I want answers. I also want to know if my mother thought that her kitchen was unsafe to feed her family? I want to know if she thought her kitchen was an improvement on her own mothers?

I cannot think of recording my grandmother’s recipes in to a cookbook to feed my family until I have answers. Some of these questions will be posed to my mother but they might be asked of your very own mother too.  I might a great open to your cookbook because your grandchildren and great-grandchildren might be wrestling with the same thoughts in their day. They may more new tools and gadgets to help them cook that we have never thought about but will they still be dealing with wellness issues.