A meal in a restaurant opens the taste buds, but the mother's cuisine widens all the senses. In the mother's food is the tap, tap, tap of her shoes as she moves around the kitchen. In her food is the sight of steam swirling as a pot lid is lifted, and the feel of the fork that was used for daily meals. Mama's kitchen carries the memory of scraped knees and school yard squabbles that seemed unimportant when we sat to eat. This is our inheritance, the living part of the genealogical tree, the heirloom recipes based on traditional cooking passed on through generations. These are the recipes we use, whether we are seniors or young moms.

Meals from a mother's kitchen are deceptively simple. A mother's meals are intended to nourish, to build bones and sinew, to please the taste buds of an entire family. This is the food we really eat, the food we call comfort food. The recipes exhibit all varieties of ethnic cooking, run the spectrum of regional foods. They show our mothers' creativity, and their subtle sense of art and science.

Please browse through the site and become a member. Suggest your mother and your story. Join the mothers who have offered recipes from Europe, North Africa, China, the Caribbean. Send your favorite recipe, whether it is an heirloom recipe, reaching back to the turn of the 20th century, or forward into the heightened awareness of health and nutrition of the 21st century. We look forward to having you as a member.

NEW:

• jennie guida - "keeping her with us"
• ruth hedger drissel - "when did you eat?"
• Marie Tringali - "you are sharing your heart"
• paolina deangelis Love in the kitchen
• Eric Peverelli -he changed her world
• Helynn Hart - a grandmother's love and nurture
• Bill Robinson - world traveler, world cook a papa
• Fred Serbe - pizza and mein papa a papa
• Al Viola - the master of comfort food a papa

featured mothers:

• Sally Babick - neighbors sharing with neighbors
• Alicia Bilbiloni - one of Puerto Rico's great actresses
• Martha F.Black 'a Bloomsday festival' celebrating Joyce with a professor of literature, told by her friend, Barbara Paley-Israel
• Caterina Bosselli 'a farmhouse in Italy' regional Italian cooking told by Jenny Cavanna
• Frieda Bourne - the best roast chicken fromt he lower east side of New York
• Olive Brown- almost a century of memories by her son, Atherling
• Elna Clayton - from a daughter-in-law with respect and love
• Namita Das- a Bengali cook who's son remembers even when away
• Donna Davis 'my favorite meal' by Colin Davis, age 11
• Antoinette DeRobertis 'cooking her mother's way' Southern Italian cooking, told by Annie Mansueto
• Regina Margherita Di Meglio - "it's the women who keep up our traditions"
• ruth hedger drissel - "when did you eat?"
• Debbie Farrell 'romance, adventure & generosity' told by Alison Binkerd
• Therese Farrell 'ahead of her time' heirloom recipes by Mary Merz
• Terry Fishbein 'the beauty & drama of food' told by Andrew Fishbein
• Lucia Fressola - in the pied piper's kitchen, by her daughter
• Lucia Fressola the pied piper of the kitchen by her granddaughter
• Edith Grandl 'an Austrian vacation discovery' by Monika Kramer Copeland
• Marie Fries Harkins - the embodiment of grace
• Loretta Harrison - cooking with verve, by her daughter, Brenda
• Yvonne Henry - a rapper sings about his mother
• Mary Hernandez - a Scottish war bride in the desert southwest
• Brenda Klauss - like mother, like daughter, told by her mom, Loretta
• Alice Kramer 'times of want and times of plenty' by Monika Kramer Copeland
• Isobel Lane - British cooking at its best
• Karen Liang 'adapting to a new culture' Chinese cooking told by John Liang
• Kim Lin 'home sick and loving it' Taiwanese cooking told by Dr. I. Yang Lin
• Caroline Merrill 'a gourmet and a health nut' told by Dave Merrill
• Julia Merz 'a turkey in the tub' told by Herman Merz
• Mary Merz 'flour by the sackful' told by Donna Davis
• Mayme Okell - a tender mother-daughter bond, by her daughter, Patti
• Sylvia Ortiz 'the way to say I love you' Cuban cooking told by Ernesto Ortiz   ***lea en español***
• barbara paley-israel - the language of food
• Thelma Parks - 'a little bit of heaven'
• Marieta Peverelli - we kiss and make up
• Virginia Rosso 'an away from home mother' Italian cooking by Diana Serbe
• Rita Schreier - the art of stability
• Diana Serbe 'a melting pot kitchen' told by Marisa Viola
• Hwa Ping Mao Siu 'individuality with won tons' Chinese cooking told by Paul Siu
• Elizabeth Smith 'the knave of hearts, he stole some tarts' Southern US cooking by Wayne Ferrell
• Marie Tringali - "you are sharing your heart"
• Helen Viola 'an abundant table' Sicilian cooking told by Al Viola
• Fredo & Marisa Viola 'the beat goes on' by Diana Serbe
• Agnes Amelia Williams - pasties from down under

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