Preserving Your Family Food Lore
How many culinary wizards are in your family? Regardless of whether or not they were gourmet chefs, the people in your family who were responsible for cooking and serving your favorite – or not favorite- foods make for wonderful food stories. These are the tales you want to share with others. So why not turn your remembrances of Aunt Rose, Grandpa Joe or your mother in the kitchen or at the grill into the stuff of food lore. These culinary kings, queens and paupers had a way with food that is for one reason or another unforgettable and preserving them can be as simple as spreading jam on bread. Food lore is a category of folklore which refers to the traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people (folk) that is shared in an informal manner (word of mouth, blog posts, etc.). Your food lore - funny, happy, sad - tells others about special people, places and events in your life. For example, my cousin Douglas wrote a humorous food tale about the summer his dad broug
