Nothing brings back memories of our childhood more clearly than food. The everyday food reminds us of life’s precious moments as well as its daily struggles. The family gathered at mealtime. Festive foods remind us of life’s great joys: the parties, the birthdays and holidays. Every family event was punctuated by food.
Putting together this book of food and family has been a time of remembering for us. In honoring our parents we focused on the food of our childhood. But we couldn’t help but wonder about the food of their childhoods and their parents’ childhoods.
This is a work in progress. It was very hard to find a place to stop. We already have a list of additional recipes that we want in the second edition. For example, our father’s homebrew recipe and our mother’s cottage cheese recipe. We are also searching for additional family photographs and information. Any help would be greatly appreciated especially in correcting any mistakes we may have made in this edition.
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