JeanineAlyse wrote:
> CJ Jones wrote:
>> One of my favorite cooking gifts came from a senior I had cared for when
>> I was a teenager. She left me her recipe box in her will. I'll love it
>> forever, although I have yet to translate all of the yiddish and russian
>> in the recipes. She survived a concentration camp by working as a cook
>> for soldiers. Her stories made days feel like minutes.
> What a fine and beautiful story, CJ. I am now the eldest cook in my
> family of seven generations native to Southern California, and I am
> seeing to it that the all caring cooks within the two generations past
> my age each have properly acredited copies of my great-grandmother's
> two most often requested dishes. One is for a time consuming to make
> chicken pot pie, and the other is her sour cream apple pie.
>
> As to the original intent of this thread, my now favorite kitchen gifts
> have been a 6 quart Nesco roaster and two baking sheets (similiar to
> the Silpat brand). I use these two gifts quite regularly when cooking
> or baking for my Marines and can't imagine being without either.
>
> Picky
>


that's a great legacy.. I think family traditions are so lost in this
society.

CJ