Council for Older Adults calls for heritage recipes

Mon, Jan 25th 2021 03:45 pm

The Council for More mature Adults in Niagara County introduced a special venture to doc the area’s cultural record via foods. The COA invited all Niagara County people to submit common family members recipes to preserve and commemorate their cultural background and honor their cherished kinds by means of the generation of a local community cookbook. “A Flavor of History: Heritage Recipes from Niagara County” will be out there for sale later this yr for a nominal rate.

“Food has a way of bringing us collectively like nothing else. Treasured family members recipes can link us and provide us jointly to convey to the story of where we occur from,” COA coordinator Monica Barner reported. “My mother died over 30 yrs in the past and I have generally regretted in no way writing down her orange cookie recipe. I would give anything at all to style those cookies once again and be transported back again to our kitchen.”

COA claimed, “Food is an vital aspect of culture and identification for so quite a few Western New Yorkers. Immigrants from all in excess of the environment carry the food of their nations with them wherever they go, and applying all those common recipes is a way of preserving cultural heritage and passing on spouse and children traditions to potential generations.”

All Niagara County citizens are welcome to submit their relatives recipes by using e-mail to [email protected]. Consist of your get in touch with info, a brief tale about the recipe, and attach any photographs that may well be related. Photos of handwritten recipes, spouse and children gatherings, the creator of this recipe and the concluded foodstuff product are specifically inspired for inclusion in the e book. Last cookbook will incorporate as several recipes as possible, given room limits. Recipes will be recognized via March 1. If guidance is required for distributing recipes or photos, connect with the COA at 716-285-8224, ext. 215.

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