Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
this is my grandmother as she was aging and you can see she such a beautiful
beautiful woman
she's about eighty here and she doesn't even have any wrinkles it's one
of the things i loved about my grandmother
she was a short stout woman
but she could cook a powerful punch
and I remember as a child when my parents would drop us off after
school my sister and I and we'd go into this backyard kitchen
where my grandmother was making Kibba and she would give us this little lump of dough
and we would sit there and we'd try and make that Kibba. We'd try to hollow it out
and as we're taking twenty minutes to do one
she had a whole tray finished
it was just amazing, what an amazing cook she was.
but because she couldn't read or write
there were no written recipes. I realized as I grew older
that the recipes my grandmother made were a lost art
that these were recipes I didn't know how to make
and i needed to learn how to make them in order to convey the food and culture
of our society, of our heritage
it was really really important to me growing up
that i make these foods
and part of it was because I lived away from my parents
uh... I've got married I had moved out of town and I lived away from my mother
and my grandmother and my aunts
and all of the people who are making these foods
so I decided it was important to write down those recipes
and convey those recipes to my daughter and to my granddaughters
and to my nieces and my cousins
so I took the time to write
down all of the recipes