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Mediterranean cuisine can be tasty, good for you

Freelance writer Isabel Bearman Bucher has collected her family’s stories and created a book for her daughters. Here is one example of a recipe with a story attached. I don’t remember your German great-grandmother very well because she died when I was 5. But I do remember smells. Her small house in New Haven, Connecticut,…

Family stories told by the recipes they love

Holidays at my maternal grandparents’ house almost always included a many-layered Lord Baltimore Cake served with Grandma’s homemade ambrosia. She’d spend all day in the kitchen to make the cakes, filling and ambrosia, including sectioning the oranges and grating the coconut by hand. Old-fashioned Southern cakes are a lot of trouble, but well worth it…