Heirloom Meals: Savoring Yesterday's Traditions Today

Tuesday July 02, 2013

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Recording From the Country Living Fair

I had a blast at this year's inaugural fair at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds!  Not only did I do a cooking demo with famed Celtic's basketball player, Eric Williams, I set up my radio recording equipment to capture the other foodies and talent that were showing their wares and telling stories at the fair. I interviewed, Sara Morrow, the features editor at Country Living Magazine, Mindy Fox, editor of La Cucina Italiana Magazine and cookbook author, Matt Lee and Ted Lee, aka The Lee Brothers form Charleston, S.C. and Brent Ridge, 1/2 of the Fabulous Beekman Boys and Beekman 1802!

Here are the links to their interviews:

Sara Morrow

The Lee Brothers

Mindy Fox

Brent Ridge 

Wednesday July 18, 2012

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Using your roots to create a future

We've been busy here at Heirloom Meals and have gotten a little behind on our radio guest blogs.  But we're catching up today and I want to introduce you to three distinct and very interesting people, each of them have a very unique Heirloom story!  

Leslie Reichert is commonly known as the "Green Cleaning Coach" as she has   returned to her ancestral ways to create a Green Cleaning Recipe book based on the cleaning recipes of her own grandmother.  Find out more about how to clean your house using simple natural ingredients such as vinegar and baking soda HERE.

   Italian born professor Fabio Parasecoli learned to appreciate food through his travels and co-authored the book "A cultural History of Food".  Hear more about his journey to understand culture, history and food HERE.

 

Tessa Edick is a true American-born girl who has used her fond childhood ​memories based around local food and agriculture to create her adulthood business successes; starting a business called "Sauce 'n Love" and selling it to move on to create the "Friends of the Farmer Festival".  Listen to Tesse's story HERE!!!

 

Wednesday June 20, 2012

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Doug Ferguson

Doug Ferguson exudes positive energy!!  He cracked me up and touched my heart with the story about his Mom's turquoise pot.  Imagine knowing that when that pot was on the stove, it would yield a not-so-great attempt at Cincinnati Chili!!  Doug has now perfected the recipe and honors his Mom by cooking it in his newly acquired turquoise dutch oven.

Doug has taken his love of cooking, of being in the suburbs and being a Dad and a neighbor and translated it into both a tongue-in-cheek and serious journal in his blog, The Suburban Cookbook.  I think you will enjoy listening to Doug as much as I enjoyed interviewing him!! Thank you Doug!!

Listen to his show HERE.  And we apologize that the sound quality isn't the best :-(

Wednesday June 13, 2012

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Grace Young

Grace Young touched my heart when I first heard her speak at a cookbook conference in February. When Grace decided to spend time with her Mom and relatives in San Francisco chronicling the family recipes, she got the unexpected - stories, wisdom, lore and love. Her journey to preserve her family recipes yielded a far richer experience. In addition, while the original intent was to keep the recipes alive for future generations, another unintended consequence occurred. Grace's Mom has aged. And it's when Grace makes her Mom a treasured family recipe that her Mom perks up. The smell and the tastes take her Mom back to a happy place. So, a project started to help future generations has actually touched an older generation. And now you see why Grace's talk brought tears to my eyes!! Her cookbooks are an amazing chronicle of not only her family recipes and stories, but also Grace has traveled and collected many other Chinese recipes and stories. Grace, like me, believes that the story is what gives a recipe context. It's what connects us to our past and bridges us to the future!

Grace has shared 2 recipes from her books. Chinese Trinidadian Stir-fried Shrimp with Rum from Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories and Vegetable Lo-Mein from The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing .

Thank you Grace Young for all you wonderfulness!! I am happy to have met a kindred spirit who shares the same joy of the story!!

Listen to her interview here.

Wednesday June 06, 2012

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Marion Nestle

Would you believe that a person who is among the top 7 most powerful foodies according to Michael Pollan admits to having no real food memories from her childhood other than summer camp in Vermont?  But it was an extraordinary memory and has influenced her to this day. Was it the fresh-picked green beans, still warm from the summer sun? The wild berries? 

Fast forward to adult life and Marion Nestle is, bar none, at the top of the food movement chain!  What I loved about Marion was her optimism.  She's been focused on food studies since 1996 and has seen great strides in the food movement. It's really all about values - what kind of food do we want to feed out families?  So vote with you fork and live sustainably by putting back what you take out.  Seems simple, right - then do it!!  Thank you Marion for all that you do!!

And enjoy Marion's interview. It's Informative and inspiring! Listen Here!

Wednesday June 06, 2012

Heirloom Meals Radio:
Ella Nemcova

Latvian-born Ella Nemcova is a first generation American who witnessed her family straddle their heritage foods with the new American foods and "Good Housekeeping" ethos.  And like many of us, didn't pay alot of attention to food growing up.  She loved Russian Deli food and, in particular, Salad Olivier - a salad of potatoes, peas, pickles, and kielbasa - all cubed in the same shape and size.  Ella spent the beginning of her career in advertising but left that career and began an odyssey that would lead her to her new career as a vegan caterer, teacher and artisanal product creator. Check out The Regal Vegan.  

And listen to her interview here!!

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