Heirloom Recipes Quotes

I was raised cooking my grandmother's food, my mom's recipes.

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It's like a memoir-cookbook.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma's schnecken.

To me, my recipes are priceless.

The matriarchs of my family loved to bake, and the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Baking became something I did every day; it became a time where my creative and nurturing side took stage.

Every year, my father comes by and samples the chremslach - like quality control - and tells me how they taste just like his mother's.

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me.

If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

My father, he made chili; that was probably his favorite dish to make.

I'm a fan of the hand-me-down recipes - friends, family, bake sales, community cookbooks - those are the recipes that have withstood the test of time and fed many hungry fans.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.