Perhaps you are the family member other family members contact when they have a question about Aunt Betty’s apple crisp or Uncle Johnny’s barbecue sauce. You are the one with custom recipe cards and have vowed to make your own family cookbook with the beloved family recipes.
Does that make you the family food historian? Well, perhaps.
Review our 10 point family food historian character profile and see if you fall into the family food historian category:
Family Food Historian Character Profile
1. Wants to know who in the family made a family recipe first.
2. Documents family recipes like the precious heritage they are.
3. Considers an old family recipe found in a dusty family bookshelf a treasure.
4. Has too many cookbooks and family recipes, but continues to collect them anyway.
5. Has created several family cookbooks with Matilda’s Fantastic Cookbook Software.
6. Likes to share family cooking knowledge and kitchen techniques with others.
7. Cherishes the family recipes written in a family member’s own handwriting.
8. Enjoys making and eating old family recipes, and trying new ones.
9. Loves to entertain friends with tales (and samples) of family cooking exploits.
10. Knows that a family recipe — along with many beloved memories — will endure as long as it is properly appreciated and preserved.
If you recognize yourself in five or more of these 10 characteristics: Congratulations, you are definitely the family food historian. It is an important role; a job you do selflessly for the family out of love (and a bit of fame among the motley family group who cannot boil water).
Yes, being the authority on family recipes, family cookbooks, family cooking history, et al, certainly is a big job. Somebody’s gotta do it. Might as well be you¦the one who cares. We at The Cookbook People are glad to help.
Happy family cookbook making!
Erin
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