Welcome To The Family Tree of Cooking and Memories Website
Welcome to the Website and I am happy you stopped by to visit. It has always been a pleasing persistent thought in the back of my mind to have a way to keep the family tradition alive and chronicled. Sometimes the best family memories just seem to fade into lost details and to be able to visit those memories would be desirable.
It seems with most of the family traditions I remember, food was a key component. It is a reality that family and friends grow apart as life happens. But it doesn’t change the fact that we all grew up and lived side by side and our roots are still entangled forever. You forge a lot of traditions that are centered around food. So my hope is to capture all the memories by collecting as many recipes as I can to share. So when you prepare a recipe from this website you can take a moment to travel back to memory and enjoy. At the end of the day the memories will mean a great deal more as you deepen in the winter of your life.
“There are very few traditions in life that don’t have food as a centerpiece for our memories”. Ian Marx
What This Website Means
I have arrived at the realization that what we failed to commit to words can be lost forever unless we capture in those words all the traditions and moments we so need to keep alive. And recipes seems to bridge so many events in our life so a cookbook seemed to be a way to preserve all the things that make us smile. What I hope to chronical is my family recipes that link to traditions that were special and some that are everyday happenings. Sometimes just a bowl of soup on a cold and wet night is the definition of comfort and for a few moments as you eat the soup your memories and thoughts somehow return to other cold and wet nights that you engaged in that exact comfort . Ian Marx wrote that “eating food prepared as part of a family tradition is like stepping into a time machine and returning to so many points in your life to visit just one more time”.
Check out the recipes and please share with me any recipes you would like to have committed to words along with a brief story whey the recipes is special. I plan to keep adding recipes and hopefully all the recipes you will share with me for some time to come.