The Family Table: A Journal for Recipes and Memories

If you are looking for a book which has space for your own recipes and pockets to hold clippings and photos, this might be the book for you. Each chapter starts with an essay by the author and then continues with vintage photos and food quotes. It reminds me of a photo album (in style) and it is really a special journal in which you can keep your family's favorite recipes. You might want to consider having your relatives write some of the recipes in their own handwriting. Don't wait to start collecting your family recipes. I started collecting them when I was about 7 and now have 395 recipes I use all the time. We all remember those delicious meals, but reproducing them in our own kitchens is the real trick. If you can collect the recipes and spend time with your family learning to make their favorite dishes, you will never regret it. There is something wonderful about cooking with family and passing on your favorite recipes to those you love. "One certainly cannot learn the technical details of cookery entirely from books; but if the cooks, celebrated and obscure, of the past had believed that written recipes were unnecessary, we should now be in a sad plight indeed." -Elizabeth David, French Provincial Cooking (1960) ~The Rebecca Review