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Nani Fatima's Recipes

These recipes from Pakistani-born grandmother Fatima Khan, make use of spices easily found in an Indian or Middle Eastern market. Spicy Mango Chutney The mango in this reci ... read more
 Old Country Meets New Country on the New American Backyard Grill
Old Country Meets New Country on the New American Backyard Grill
Grandparents fire up the grill and a taste of family heritage

Forget all the usual "melting pot" references. In the warm weather, the backyard grill becomes the place where ethnic heritage meets an All-American ritual. It's a rare cultur ... read more
Reunion Tips

Pick a potluck Potlucks are an excellent way to get to learn about each other’s tastes and the traditions of your extended family. Create a list of signature dishes by e ... read more
 Memory Maker
Memory Maker
Joyce Goldstein offers tips to turn summer's bounty into tomorrow's memories.

Chef and cookbook author Joyce Goldstein says summer is the best time of year to create recipes that may become treasured heirlooms of time spent in the kitchen with her grand ... read more
 All In The Family
All In The Family
Annual summer reunions are a popular way to bring generations together.

Every year families across America take to their cars and campers, airplanes and trains to meet and gather in backyards, parks, camp-grounds, resorts, church cellars, and othe ... read more
 Grandparents.com Interview With Suzanne Somers
Grandparents.com Interview With Suzanne Somers
The queen of healthy living teaches her grandchildren the secrets of the kitchen.

Television star Suzanne Somers evolved on our screens from bubbly blonde to fitness and food guru. At 61, her most important role is as grandmother of six, ages 4 to 13, whom ... read more
 Fire It Up
Fire It Up
Rick Browne is a barbecue fiend, but his grandchildren focus more on the food than how it's cooked.

Rick Browne began his love affair with barbecue and grilling in 1998 when he was a photojournalist on assignment for Travel Holiday magazine and he was taking pictures for a p ... read more
 Stories a Kosher Kitchen Can Tell
Stories a Kosher Kitchen Can Tell
One proud Bubby has a simple recipe for teaching her grandchildren the family story

Inside Sally Levine’s childhood home in Cleveland, the air was rich with the aroma of home-cooked traditional Jewish food, a constant reminder of her parents’ life ... read more
 My Grandmothers
My Grandmother's Seder
Passover favorites with a few twists


There’s only room for Mrs. Cohen in Shirley Cohen’s kitchen. The 85-year-old grandmother of nine, who lives in Albany, N.Y., has made the Passover Seder for her fa ... read more
 My Grandchildren Can Cook — & Dance
My Grandchildren Can Cook — & Dance
Cecylia Roznowska teaches her grandchildren about their heritage through food and dance.

According to Polish tradition, a prosperous marriage begins with gifts of bread, salt, and wine. But it is dancing that ensures happiness for the happy couple, and for more t ... read more
 Perfection in Chaos
Perfection in Chaos
How the birth of her grandchild taught the perfectly put-together Birt Lewis to relax and enjoy the ride.

It was different when Birt Lewis’s children were young in the mid-1960s. Appearances mattered more than emotional connection and phrases like “quality time” ... read more
 An Easter Tradition
An Easter Tradition
Succulent ham: the centerpiece of your Easter feast

A ham is, for many, the centerpiece of the Easter table. Dry-aged country hams from Virginia and Kentucky are a centuries-old tradition that are worth trying, whether you live ... read more
 The Aptly Named Mrs. Baker
The Aptly Named Mrs. Baker
A grandmother's affinity for baking perfect and tasty cookies

Myrtle Baker is a retired schoolteacher, a wood-carver who creates Swedish folk-art animals, and one of Minnesota’s most venerated cookie bakers. No one bakes sugar cook ... read more
 The Multicultural Grandmother
The Multicultural Grandmother
Leni Sorensen creates memories for her grandchildren when she makes her ancestors' cornbread recipes. The cornbread can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, or dinner and it can turn a hearty soup into a satisfying meal.

“I started thinking about my family history when I started having children of my own,” says Leni Sorensen, Ph.D., African-American Research Historian at Monticello ... read more
 Mrs. Sun & the Lunar New Year
Mrs. Sun & the Lunar New Year
A grandmother's story, and the food that symbolizes life

Cong Jingming Sun’s grandchildren were getting tired. They loved accompanying her on extended shopping trips in Manhattan’s Chinatown. They loved learning the Chin ... read more
 One-Pot Dishes
One-Pot Dishes
Some grandparents like to cook with their children, others like to prepare meals far in advance of a visit in order to be able to relax with the younger generation. One-Pot dishes can go either way.

Because of the long, slow cooking, one-pot dishes and be assembled early in the day of a child’s visit and her help can be enlisted (click here for a summary of what mos ... read more
 Judy Bart Kancigor:  One-Pot Dishes for the Family Soul
Judy Bart Kancigor: One-Pot Dishes for the Family Soul
Recipes with stories that warm the soul

Judy Bart Kancigor was expecting her first grandchild when her favorite aunt became gravely ill. “That’s when it hit me,” says the California mother of two ... read more
 Valorie Arrowsmiths
Valorie Arrowsmith's Carrot Soup
Finding the perfect meal in carrot soup

You never know what little piece of you life will give you something that will one day become synonymous with family gatherings, a recipe that will prompt one’s children ... read more
 Glorious, Steamy Winter Soup
Glorious, Steamy Winter Soup
Remembering the subtleties of grandma's soup

“What do you remember most from your grandmother’s kitchen?” I ask people as I travel around the country. Seven out of ten people say “Her soup.” ... read more
 Teachers in the Classroom & Kitchen
Teachers in the Classroom & Kitchen
A child's role in cooking

By day, Phyllis and David Whitin are professors of education at Wayne State University in Detroit. The couple, who met in fifth grade, are teachers of a different sort at hom ... read more
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