Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions (A Friends Fund Publication) - Softcover

Frey, Valerie J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820330639 ISBN 13: 9780820330631

Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 2015

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Frey infuses her book with stories and recipes she collected from her own family, which makes it a cozy joy to read. At the same time, by including these, she proves that the process of documenting such recipes is not only feasible, but wholly worthwhile.--Jenna Mason "Southern Foodways Alliance " There is certainly more in this book than can be described here, so if you are a cookbook collector, family food historian, someone who likes old recipes, or you enjoy the history of cooking, especially Southern cooking, this book is for you. It would be a great last-minute gift as well.--Kenneth H. Thomas "Atlanta Journal-Constitution " If you have ever been overwhelmed by the task of researching, analyzing, organizing, and preserving family recipes, you probably have longed for a trained archivist to take charge! Well, one finally has in this exhaustive and delightful work by educator/archivist Valerie Frey, who expertly guides readers step-by-step to create family cookbooks, heirloom recipe collections, and food-related oral histories and most importantly, shows how to protect our historic family recipes, recollections, papers, and artifacts for future generations to enjoy and savor. There's much southern flavor here, too, reflected in Frey's Arkansas family roots and her long association with the Georgia Archives.--Marcie Cohen Ferris "author of The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region " The history of families, of communities, of cultures has a lot to do with what they eat. Rarely do we document the repast, but Valerie Frey is aiming to patch that loss with Preserving Family Recipes. She is teaching us to preserve the recipes of our ancestors. It is an important read for the future and past of our food.--Hugh Acheson "author of A New Turn in the South "

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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 spattering mixer, shortening their lives. This book is a guide for gathering, adjusting, supplementing, and safely preservingfamily 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. Chaptersare 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.

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• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0820330639
• ISBN 13: 9780820330631
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320