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Stories a Kosher Kitchen Can Tell
One proud Bubby has a simple recipe for teaching her grandchildren the family story
Inside Sally Levine’s childhood home in Cleveland, the air was rich with the aroma of home-cooked traditional Jewish food, a constant reminder of her parents’ life ... read more
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My Grandmother's Seder
Passover favorites with a few twists
There’s only room for Mrs. Cohen in Shirley Cohen’s kitchen. The 85-year-old grandmother of nine, who lives in Albany, N.Y., has made the Passover Seder for her fa ... read more
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My Grandchildren Can Cook & Dance
Cecylia Roznowska teaches her grandchildren about their heritage through food and dance.
According to Polish tradition, a prosperous marriage begins with gifts of bread, salt, and wine. But it is dancing that ensures happiness for the happy couple, and for more t ... read more
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Perfection in Chaos
How the birth of her grandchild taught the perfectly put-together Birt Lewis to relax and enjoy the ride.
It was different when Birt Lewis’s children were young in the mid-1960s. Appearances mattered more than emotional connection and phrases like “quality time” ... read more
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An Easter Tradition
Succulent ham: the centerpiece of your Easter feast
A ham is, for many, the centerpiece of the Easter table. Dry-aged country hams from Virginia and Kentucky are a centuries-old tradition that are worth trying, whether you live ... read more
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The Aptly Named Mrs. Baker
A grandmother's affinity for baking perfect and tasty cookies
Myrtle Baker is a retired schoolteacher, a wood-carver who creates Swedish folk-art animals, and one of Minnesota’s most venerated cookie bakers. No one bakes sugar cook ... read more
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The Multicultural Grandmother
Leni Sorensen creates memories for her grandchildren when she makes her ancestors cornbread recipes. The cornbread can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, or dinner and it can turn a hearty soup into a satisfying meal.
“I started thinking about my family history when I started having children of my own,” says Leni Sorensen, Ph.D., African-American Research Historian at Monticello ... read more
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Mrs. Sun & the Lunar New Year
A grandmother's story, and the food that symbolizes life
Cong Jingming Sun’s grandchildren were getting tired. They loved accompanying her on extended shopping trips in Manhattan’s Chinatown. They loved learning the Chin ... read more
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One-Pot Dishes
Some grandparents like to cook with their children, others like to prepare meals far in advance of a visit in order to be able to relax with the younger generation. One-Pot dishes can go either way.
Because of the long, slow cooking, one-pot dishes and be assembled early in the day of a child’s visit and her help can be enlisted (click here for a summary of what mos ... read more
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Valorie Arrowsmith's Carrot Soup
Finding the perfect meal in carrot soup
You never know what little piece of you life will give you something that will one day become synonymous with family gatherings, a recipe that will prompt one’s children ... read more
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Glorious, Steamy Winter Soup
Remembering the subtleties of grandma's soup
“What do you remember most from your grandmother’s kitchen?” I ask people as I travel around the country. Seven out of ten people say “Her soup.” ... read more
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Teachers in the Classroom & Kitchen
A child's role in cooking
By day, Phyllis and David Whitin are professors of education at Wayne State University in Detroit. The couple, who met in fifth grade, are teachers of a different sort at hom ... read more
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Family Recipes, Family Ties
A grandfather finds comfort in biscuits & gravy
Biscuits and gravy is all there is to say. Max Moran, a 47-year-old artist and grandfather of four, who lives and paints in Baiting Hollow, N.Y., is sure of this. He shunned ... read more
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Families Grow, Menus Change
Cooking brought these families together
Deanna White should have expected that large family gatherings at home in Ypsilanti, Mich., would eventually become less about balancing personalities and more about balancing ... read more
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Cooking Naturally at Moonstone Farm
Where farmers, chefs, and writers talk about cooking up family connections
Audrey Arner and Richard Handeen were children of the 60’s. After earning their liberal-arts degrees, they went “back to the land” — the 240-acre chun ... read more
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When the Tomten Come Down
The American Swedish Institute is located in an immense neo-Gothic mansion that took 200 twentieth century craftsmen four years to build. Under snow, its turrets, arches and t ... read more
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Swedish Cookie Ingredients
Baker's Ammonia: Also known as “horn salt” and “hartshorn,” this is a leavening ingredient that is common in many Scandinavian cookies, crackers, and p ... read more
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Tips From the Cookie Queens
- When making sugar cookies and other delicate cookies, handle the dough as little as possible.
- Precise measures are very important: fill the appropriate spoon or cup and th ... read more
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The Cookie Queens of Minneapolis
Before their product endorsement deal in the 1980s, the grandmothers of the Swedish Institute were known as the best cookie bakers in the USA. They still are.
Minneapolis is the southern province of Santa’s North Pole kingdom. The weather is not all that different. Minneapolis is cold and snowy enough to demand a warm, glowing ... read more
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