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Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions
Valerie J. Frey
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Description for Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions
paperback. 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. Series: A Friends Fund Publication. Num Pages: 320 pages, 150 black & white images. BIC Classification: WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
Heirloom dishes and family food traditions are rich sources of nostalgia and provide vivid ways to learn about our families’ past, yet they can be problematic. Many family recipes and food traditions are never documented in written or photographic form, existing only as unwritten know-how and lore that vanishes when a cook dies. Even when recipes are written down, they often fail to give the tricks and tips that would allow another cook to accurately replicate the dish. Unfortunately, recipes are also often damaged as we plunk Grandma’s handwritten cards on the countertop next to a steaming pot or a ... Read more
Heirloom dishes and family food traditions are rich sources of nostalgia and provide vivid ways to learn about our families’ past, yet they can be problematic. Many family recipes and food traditions are never documented in written or photographic form, existing only as unwritten know-how and lore that vanishes when a cook dies. Even when recipes are written down, they often fail to give the tricks and tips that would allow another cook to accurately replicate the dish. Unfortunately, recipes are also often damaged as we plunk Grandma’s handwritten cards on the countertop next to a steaming pot or a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
A Friends Fund Publication
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820330631
SKU
V9780820330631
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About Valerie J. Frey
Valerie J. Frey is a writer, archivist, and an educational consultant.She lives in Athens, Georgia.
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