Easter Recipes with Family Traditions Creates A Great Gift
Family recipes have been handed down from generations in the kitchens of the world. From mother to daughter and rarely written down. They were made over and over so there was no need to write them. Some of those same recipes will be served on the tables at Easter. Families tend to bring out the family traditions for the holidays. Great stories of family members that feasted together with the flavors of the home country—where ever that home country was. How easy is would it be to write up a story about foods that were eaten at Easter growing up? If you have relatives to ask for the recipes all the better, but if not, go on the web and see if you can find recipes from cultural guides from your ethnic group. It may take a few hours but it will be a great gift.
I know this by looking at the faces of the Top chef All Stars this past week. If you are not a fan like I am, the show brings chefs from all over the country to compete over a number of weeks to be the top chef of the year featured in magazines and all sort of other prizes. The All Stars is a show with all the chefs from previous years that did not make the top in their years the competed but were in the finals. Can I just tell you last week’s show hit all my buttons? I love food and cooking and I love family histories. The final challenge for elimination was cooking from your heritage with the chef’s relatives in attendance for final tasting. Pure joy while cooking, pure joy in the tasting round and even in the final round.
The look of amazement when connections are made keeps me loving be a personal historian. The joy you see on the faces is something really hard to explain. When you see it you know it, that is how I have to describe it. If you have a word for it, I would love to add it to my lexicon. I accept all comments that give a word for this feeling of connection to family, heritage and understanding that you stand on the shoulders of family members you have never met. Those little stories and with some recipes may give your family members that same joy I saw on the Top Chef All Star Show.
I share this link so you can see what I am talking about. And I would love to know what the word for that joy is, so please share your ideas.
Top Chef All Stars
I know this by looking at the faces of the Top chef All Stars this past week. If you are not a fan like I am, the show brings chefs from all over the country to compete over a number of weeks to be the top chef of the year featured in magazines and all sort of other prizes. The All Stars is a show with all the chefs from previous years that did not make the top in their years the competed but were in the finals. Can I just tell you last week’s show hit all my buttons? I love food and cooking and I love family histories. The final challenge for elimination was cooking from your heritage with the chef’s relatives in attendance for final tasting. Pure joy while cooking, pure joy in the tasting round and even in the final round.
The look of amazement when connections are made keeps me loving be a personal historian. The joy you see on the faces is something really hard to explain. When you see it you know it, that is how I have to describe it. If you have a word for it, I would love to add it to my lexicon. I accept all comments that give a word for this feeling of connection to family, heritage and understanding that you stand on the shoulders of family members you have never met. Those little stories and with some recipes may give your family members that same joy I saw on the Top Chef All Star Show.
I share this link so you can see what I am talking about. And I would love to know what the word for that joy is, so please share your ideas.
Top Chef All Stars
Posted by Hella at 3/10/2011 10:52 AM 
Categories: family recipes, cookbook writing, family traditions
Tags: Top Chef food memoir family traditions family stories cookbook themes cookbook writing cooking traditions
Categories: family recipes, cookbook writing, family traditions
Tags: Top Chef food memoir family traditions family stories cookbook themes cookbook writing cooking traditions
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