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We Asked: Do you have a favorite dish a loved one used to make?

Illustration of a senior woman preparing a dish based on a traditional family recipe

Every issue, we ask our readers to share their insights on a specific topic. Read their thoughts, and then let us know your thoughts, or watch for our next question in our weekly newsletter. Q: Do you have a favorite dish a loved one used to make? Many of our respondents shared their full recipes and photos […]

Delicious Memories

A family of different generations cooks together passing down family recipes

How family recipes connect past and future generations  Fact checked by Shannon Sparks   Anupy Singla has a potato curry that she makes with one standout ingredient: yellow raisins.  She learned about yellow raisins from her dad, as she was writing the recipe for the curry. Her dad remembered that in the village where he was […]

Cooking Connections

Senior mother and daughter cooking together family recipes

Printing family recipes can preserve memories, independence When I first met my husband, his mother was already having some health struggles. She had recovered, but not completely, from a stroke several years earlier. And she was stoically suffering from the double whammy of macular degeneration and the early stages of dementia. Despite her challenges, she […]