I have the privilege of belonging to a family that is passionate not only about food, but each other. After all, the reason for the food is not only to nourish the body but also to feed the soul. It gives us a great reason to get together and enjoy each other’s company, catch up on news, watch our children grow up together and learn what’s really important in life– Family.

It’s kind of hard for me to write about myself because I love being the behind the scenes kind of person. The go-to-person, the researcher, the archiver and the historian. I love to learn the who and why of something. I’m one of those people who can’t do something just to do it. I need to know why we do it, who did it first, and what was the motivation behind it.  Who are the people who have gone before us, and passed down to us the recipes and the traditions that we hold dear?

Looking at old cookbooks is a passion of mine and I look forward to sharing with you tidbits of information I find as I delve into the past and bring back to focus some of the things that our ancestors knew about food. One thing that I have learned from them is that food is not about the ingredients only; it’s about the people we prepare it for.