As I remarked on the home page, this project has always been a bucket list hope living in the back part of my mind for many years.  I really wanted to be able too gather a majority of the family recipes that should not be lost but  rather chronicled.   And in many ways preserves a linkage to the past of family traditions and recipes framed in good memories.     

I also prescribe to to the belief that food is a unique art form because it can play with all of your senses. Obviously, you taste the food and you can feel the texture as you chew. You can hear the sounds of the chicken stock boiling with the wonderful aroma that fills the kitchen.  And you see the food and its presentation. The physical comforts of the food has meaning and they all fit into a sense of wellbeing.   Food has always been at the center of our lives because it plays a significant part in our social and cultural lifestyles. We gather as whole community around food, share it with the people we love. Good memories are often associated to what we eat on a particular moment of joy.  So I think it is import to gather all the recipes and link it back to parts of the family.  It is very much like a book of memories if we choose to just let those memories take hold. 

But writing about my family is only the first part of this project as I would love to open this project to our extended families .  I think it would be great to ask friends to add to the recipes and stories around what this cookbook means.   So we will be including recipes and family stories of many friends as it is a way to experience other family joy.