Food For Thought 2013: January Prompt for Writing Your Food History

The theme for our January 2013 family food history writing prompt is Recipes.From the Collection of Gena Philibert-OrtegaWhat are the recipes that are important to your family? Do you have those go-to recipes you use for every holiday?Take some time this month writing out those important family recipes. Too often I hear about recipes that...

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Food Friday: Appetizers from South Carolina

It's important to remember that the main reason behind publishing community cookbooks is that they were used to raise funds for the community. In some cases, the cookbook will provide information about what projects the funds will benefit.Today's Food Friday comes from 300 Years of Carolina Cooking. (Including Game Preparation). Published...

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How to Archive Family Keepsakes Blog Book Tour: How to Preserve Vintage Cookbooks

(c) 2011 PhotoTree.com. Used with Permission.**Note from Gena:I'm so happy to introduce this guest post from Denise Levenick, excerpted from her new book How to Archive Family Keepsakes. I feel strongly that in order to research female ancestors and preserve their stories we need to use the documents and heirlooms they left behind. Denise and I both have a...

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Food Friday: Lobster from Missouri

This Food Friday is from a cookbook I wrote about in June 2012, the Directory and Cook Book. First Baptist Church, Maryville, Missouri. Unlike other community cookbooks, it begins with a list of all the women in the Ladies Auxiliary of the First Baptist Church. Individual recipes are not attributed.This cookbook is one of the best examples of how community...

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Join Me for the Family Curator's Book Tour

I love BOOKS! And I am so grateful to be able to showcase authors who have written great books that help preserve our family and food history. So I'm proud to announce that I am one of the bloggers hosting Denise Levenick's , a.k.a. The Family Curator, Book Tour for her new book, How to Archive Family Keepsakes.A family's food history can include a...

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Food For Thought 2013: Monthly Prompts for Writing Your Food History

Whenever I talk  about family food history, genealogists and non-genealogists alike recount wonderful stories about the foods they grew up with, their fond memories of the cooks in their family, and even what the kitchens of their childhood looked like.I am a big believer in preserving social history for those who are the family's future genealogists....

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Food Friday: Crisp, Baked Chicken

We spend a lot of time at Food.Family.Ephemera talking about community cookbooks and their worth when researching women. While the standard community cookbook is compiled by a group of women to raise funds, there are cookbooks, recipe booklets, and the such that are similar to a community cookbook but published for other reasons.Today's recipe for...

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