Posts Tagged ‘family traditions’
A Mom Teaches Her Children the Importance of Food
Where do we first learn the values of food and community, you guessed it, it’s at…
Mo Rocca Learns to Cook from our Elders: My Grandmother’s Ravioli
Mo Rocca turns to the grandparents of America to learn how to become a home cook.
Lefse Lessons with Grandma
November 16, 2010 The upcoming holidays, for many, is a time of preparing special, time-honored recipes. Many are family traditions to be passed down from generation to generation. This is one of those dishes that the Sylvester family, of Minnesota, does year after year: making lefse. What is a lefse? Simply put, it’s a “traditional [...]
Memories of a Lebanese Garden (video)
Stories behind the illustrations Linda Sawaya did for a magazine that involved her own family stories, her gardens, food, and love.
Cooking With Love: Alice’s Kitchen (video)
A cookbook author, gardener, and artist? I liked the idea of doing a story on someone with such a rich family history in which food played such a major role.


