Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions
304 Pages
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The author has organized her family’s recipes and shows readers how they can do the same. The book is divided into the following chapters. I love the idea of including genealogical notes, stores, and photographs with the recipes.
Chapter 1: Setting a Course
Chapter 2: Organizing and Protecting Your Materials
Chapter 3: Adjusting Recipes
Chapter 4: Working with Regional or World Recipes
Chapter 5: Interviews or Cooking Visits
Chapter 6: Orphaned Recipes and Conducting Research
Chapter 7: Sharing Family Recipes and Foodways
Recently, I have been going through my husband’s family’s recipes. I want to have something to pass on to our children and think this would be a wonderful project. I absolutely love the Jeep recipe she includes as a “non-recipe.” She offers advice to start small and do a little at a time instead of making it too big of a project with unrealistic goals that you will never reach.
If you are looking for a way to preserve your family’s recipes and history, this is a wonderful place to start. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in genealogy.
