Preserving family recipes
Subtitle: how to save and celebrate your food traditions
By: Valerie J. Frey
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780820330631
Subjects: Food habits; Cooking; Families; Research
Description: This book is a guide for gathering, adjusting, supplementing, and safely preserving family recipes and for interviewing relatives, collecting oral histories, and conducting kitchen visits to document family food traditions from the everyday to special occasions. It blends commonsense tips with sound archival principles, helping you achieve effective results while avoiding unnecessary pitfalls. Chapters are also dedicated to unfamiliar regional or ethnic cooking challenges, as well as to working with recipes that are orphans, surrogates, or terribly outdated. Whether you simply want to save a few accurate recipes, help yesterday's foodways evolve so they are relevant for today's table, or create an extensive family cookbook, this guidebook will help you to savor your memories.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting a course; title: Organizing and protecting your materials; title: Adjusting recipes; title: Working with regional or world recipes; title: Interviews and cooking visits; title: Orphaned recipes and conducting research; title: Sharing family recipes and foodways.