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News Articles: family recipes

Left: Marissa Dates (clockwise from upper left), her mother, Ellen, her brother Nathan, her grandparents Bud and Diane. Right: Marissa's brisket.

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  • Food

The one where friends offended seven Jewish grandmothers with their brisket

Instead of picking one brisket recipe for a Rosh Hashanah meal, these college roommates combined their grandmothers' recipes into one. It did not go exactly as planned.

December 18, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
Left: A photo of Grandmother Petra. Right: A dish of capirotada sits on a colorful tablecloth.

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Grandmother Petra's love is baked into this Mexican bread pudding recipe

Sweet and savory capirotada was an expression of Grandmother Petra's love for her family, especially at Christmastime. She never wrote it down, so her grandchild had to re-create it from memory.

December 18, 2022
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By:
  • Wynne Davis
Left: Mona Grandbois and her sister Doris Adeline Grandbois Ray. Right: Tourtière, a French Canadian pork pie.

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A bit of mystery surrounds a family's tourtière recipe, but it's a holiday favorite

They aren't sure where this version of the French Canadian meat pie came from, but one thing is clear: It isn't Christmas without tourtière.

December 18, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
Clockwise from left: Juanita MORE!'s grandmother Petra; tourtière, a French Canadian pork pie; Marissa Dates' brisket; and Jim Hamilton's family assembling cappelletti pasta.

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  • Food

Readers share their favorite holiday recipes with a side of hilarious stories

Recipes for sweet and savory bread pudding, brisket, a French Canadian pork pie and homemade pasta accompany stories both heartwarming and hilarious from the NPR audience.

December 18, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
Left: Assembled cappelletti on a table. Right: James Hamilton's niece Julia Griffin (from left), his daughter Anna Hamilton, his son Robert Hamilton, his sister Susan Hamilton Griffin and his brother-in-law, Jim Griffin.

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Nonna always welcomed everyone. She drew the line when a family dog ate her pasta

Hundreds of Nonna's handmade cappelletti were no match for Barron the Doberman. But Barron was no match for Nonna and her rolling pin.

December 18, 2022
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By:
  • Wynne Davis
Left: Merjem Mededovic in her hometown of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Right: Kljukusa on a plate.

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  • Food

Savory Bosnian pancakes called 'cousin' bridged a language gap with Grandma

While growing up, Merjem Mededovic cooked with her grandmother and learned names of various things in Bosnian. One recipe she learned is kljukusa, a potato and onion dish similar to a latke.

December 11, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
Clockwise from left: Lily Liu with her father; Alan Mishell with his son; kljukusa on a plate; and Erin Rhode's family preparing specken dicken.

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  • Food

The breakfast special features favorite pancake recipes from your kitchens

Four recipes feature pancakes — from sweet to savory — from our NPR audience. One's made of matzo meal, another has potatoes. Scallions and sausage are in there, too.

December 11, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom

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  • Food

Culinary favorites stir thoughts of family from Kentucky to India, China and beyond

Try your hand at making two curries — one fish and one lamb — plus a recipe for a slow-cooked country ham and other family favorites.

December 04, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
Left: Sujata Halarnkar and her mother, Sulochana Shridhankar. Right: Fish curry.

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  • Food

Spicy fish curry dish is seasoned with childhood memories of India's Konkan region

This recipe represents the ultimate comfort food — nothing fancy. It's been passed from generation to generation. If you can't handle the heat, try adding mango.

December 04, 2022
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By:
  • Wynne Davis
As a child, Linda Ishmael would help her grandparents prepare Old Kentucky Ham for the holidays.

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  • Food

This Kentucky ham recipe needs 24 hours of 'sleep' before it's ready to eat

When Grandpa put on his raincoat, that meant it was time to move the ham off the stove, just one step in Grandma's slow-cook process for a salt-cured country ham.

December 04, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
Left: Bamboo buns. Right: Kaitlyn Hennacy's grandmother, Yuehua Zhang.

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  • Food

These bamboo buns came from China with Grandma. First we forage, then we cook

No one picks more bamboo than Grandma Zhang, who "shows her love through cooking." Her work ethic and all of the dishes she makes are an inspiration to her family.

December 04, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
A family photo of Diane Richardson and her brother Gary Kirchherr. Later in life, when her brother visited at Christmastime, Richardson would make the lamb curry recipe their mother learned when the family lived in Nigeria.

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  • Food

Lamb curry shakes up a traditional Christmas dinner. It started with a stay in Nigeria

A choice of toppings lets all of the relatives around the table make this meal their own. And it's OK to substitute chicken or tofu if lamb is not your thing.

December 04, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
This recipe started in Arizona. Now, sisters Kirsten Ayles (left), in San Clemente, Calif., and Alexis Wold, in New York City, make it on opposite coasts. Right: A family photo of their grandparents' restaurant, Odd's Sombrero in Wickenburg, Ariz.

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  • Food

A surprise breakfast ingredient pulls this quick taco meat recipe together

A young woman's family recipes transformed the menu at a restaurant in Arizona where she worked. Decades later, the business is gone but the owners' granddaughter still makes the taco filling today.

December 04, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
Left: Jordan Harrison with her grandmother, Judy Greene. Right: Freshly made butter mints.

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  • Food

Zoom and a butter mint recipe bring a mother and daughter together

A long-distance video lesson from Mom also offered a chance to write the recipe down. Cold weather and a marble slab work best to cool this homemade confection, which has helped the family bond.

November 27, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
Pete Kincaid and his grandchildren

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  • Food

Her father's fudge recipe brings back childhood memories of the Midwest

A young Jan Kincaid Clifford wasn't even tall enough to reach the stove. That didn't stop her from stirring the pot. And stirring. And stirring. Her dad's recipe requires patience, but it pays off.

November 27, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
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