Three very nice links on food and families for your post-Thanksgiving enjoyment

[buttertart]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/nyregion/25towns.html?ref=nyregion

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec10/cookbook_11-25.html#

And for the Canadians among us...thanks a million Breadcrumbs...I love this.
http://www.ediblecommunities.com/toro...

[mariacarmen]

I heard that NPR story yesterday! Great. Sweet story on Mary's Place too. Wish my mom had been a better cook and/or kept recipes!

and i loved that buttertart story. so... he's NOT related to you. the simple leaps a simple mind like mine makes! ( :

[buttertart]

Nope, no relation. Just nice.

[MandalayVA]

I teared up--having lost my mom when I was a kid I treasure her recipes, the cookbooks she used and my memories of her cooking advice. Thanks for sharing!

[jmckee]

I teared up too. Except my dad remarried almost exactly a year after my mom died; his new wife expunged the house of most traces of her, including her wooden recipe box with a lifetime of clipped / handwritten recipes. With the exception of two recipes she gave me as a wedding gift, I have nothing to rebuild the food on which I was raised. Including more than 30 different cookes she baked at Christmas.

[buttertart]

That is criminal. I'm so sorry to hear it.

[Val]

I'm with buttertart...<sadness> what is WRONG with people??? very sorry, jmckee. ♥

[jmckee]

But I'm not bitter :-) Well, yeah I am *LOL*

[buttertart]

Every time I think about it I get mad on your behalf. It's terrible.

[MandalayVA]

That sucks, I'm sorry.