Memoir Cookbooks Give More Than Just Recipes
For some of us writing an entire cookbook seems like a task that just con not be completed. For some us we are better writers than recipe collectors and there seems to be an answer, write a memoir cookbook. You can add a few of the family recipes but you are not just collecting recipe but sharing stories.My take on this would be family stories and family history with a pinch of recipe.
I heard recently about a book that talked about the different cultures that used the same ingredients. Okay, I think of it more of historical look at food but the memoir part was this person visited each of these countries. It allows to learn about cultures and how they use the food and ingredients for ceremonial as aspects of day to day observances. Hmong traditionally give fresh chicken soup to new mothers to boast her systems. Jewish mothers give chicken soup to the person with the flu and cold. I guess you see what I mean. One ingredient.
In our houses these days we have designed the kitchen to be the epa-center and for good reason. Many of us spend a lot of time in the kitchen. We hear about what went on in the day in the kitchen. Some kids do their home work in the kitchen. People moving in and moving out. Your memoir cookbook could be about the best shared secretes between you and your siblings in the kitchen over _____. You fill in the blank of what that comfort food might be. Careful on the secrets in the book-- get permission. Usually the secrets of our childhood were not important but it gives you a theme for a non-traditional cookbook.
More themes- foods I ate on vacations--what was I thinking? or never been able to taste that again. Foods for the holidays from each side of the family? You see that once you take out the collection of recipes and just the food experience you open the stories family traditions or individual experiences.Their are no rules in creating cookbooks except how to write a recipe and most people don't know how. If you want the instructions email me at memorycookbooks@gmail.com and I will send it out to you. Be creative and have fun--that is my rule.
I heard recently about a book that talked about the different cultures that used the same ingredients. Okay, I think of it more of historical look at food but the memoir part was this person visited each of these countries. It allows to learn about cultures and how they use the food and ingredients for ceremonial as aspects of day to day observances. Hmong traditionally give fresh chicken soup to new mothers to boast her systems. Jewish mothers give chicken soup to the person with the flu and cold. I guess you see what I mean. One ingredient.
In our houses these days we have designed the kitchen to be the epa-center and for good reason. Many of us spend a lot of time in the kitchen. We hear about what went on in the day in the kitchen. Some kids do their home work in the kitchen. People moving in and moving out. Your memoir cookbook could be about the best shared secretes between you and your siblings in the kitchen over _____. You fill in the blank of what that comfort food might be. Careful on the secrets in the book-- get permission. Usually the secrets of our childhood were not important but it gives you a theme for a non-traditional cookbook.
More themes- foods I ate on vacations--what was I thinking? or never been able to taste that again. Foods for the holidays from each side of the family? You see that once you take out the collection of recipes and just the food experience you open the stories family traditions or individual experiences.Their are no rules in creating cookbooks except how to write a recipe and most people don't know how. If you want the instructions email me at memorycookbooks@gmail.com and I will send it out to you. Be creative and have fun--that is my rule.
Posted by Hella at 3/17/2011 8:38 AM 
Categories: chicken soup, Add Hints in Your Cookbook, cookbook creation, cookbook writing
Tags: cookbook creation cookbook themes family memory cookbooks family recipe cookbook family recipes
Categories: chicken soup, Add Hints in Your Cookbook, cookbook creation, cookbook writing
Tags: cookbook creation cookbook themes family memory cookbooks family recipe cookbook family recipes
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