Category: Family Cookbook

PODCAST Episode 29: The Family Cookbook – Gingerbread Waffles

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Episode 29: The Family Cookbook – Gingerbread Waffles
Ancestry, Family Cookbook, Family Lore, Folklore, Interview, Podcast, Podcast episode, Recipe

It’s Autumn, but who needs Pumpkin Spice EVERYTHING when you can join me and our Midwest Food Correspondent, Rick Leonard of An American Genealogy for an old family recipe – Gingerbread Waffles. And because they’re homemade, YOU control the spice! We talk a bit about the value of food in the Progressive movement of the … Read More “PODCAST Episode 29: The Family Cookbook – Gingerbread Waffles” »

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PODCAST Episode 26: The Family Cookbook – Emily’s Casserole

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Episode 26: The Family Cookbook – Emily’s Casserole
Biography, Documents, Family Cookbook, Family Lore, Folklore, Interview, Podcast, Podcast episode, Recipe

Family ties, a slight genealogical mystery, a discussion of privilege, 19th and 20th-century classism in Midwestern America, and the value of comfort food all converge in this week’s episode of The Family Cookbook. And, we welcome our new Food Correspondent, Rick Leonard of An American Genealogy! Rick shares with us the backstory of a family … Read More “PODCAST Episode 26: The Family Cookbook – Emily’s Casserole” »

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PODCAST Episode 23: The Family Cookbook – Johnny Mazetti, or is it Marzetti?

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Episode 23: The Family Cookbook – Johnny Mazetti, or is it Marzetti?
Family Cookbook, Family Lore, History, Podcast, Podcast episode, Recipe, Research

Did you know that family recipes have their own genealogy? I thought I was skimming yet another back-of-the-magazine recipe in a special family cookbook when I Googled Johnny Mazetti, and then one of its key ingredients, Sauce Arturo. It wasn’t as simple as I thought. And it made me wonder: did my grandmother pick this … Read More “PODCAST Episode 23: The Family Cookbook – Johnny Mazetti, or is it Marzetti?” »

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PODCAST Episode 21: The Family Cookbook – The Hinzie Family Cornbread

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Episode 21: The Family Cookbook – The Hinzie Family Cornbread
Family Cookbook, Podcast, Podcast episode, Recipe

For our inaugural episode of the folkloric and gastronomic aspects of family history, I’m presenting a staple recipe from my family’s cookbook. It entered my family with my mother’s mother’s stepmother, and every generation that has made it has put a unique twist on it since. Ethel “Itey” Garrard Drahos Hinzie, who brought it into … Read More “PODCAST Episode 21: The Family Cookbook – The Hinzie Family Cornbread” »

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PODCAST Episode 18: Mail Bag for June 2018

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Episode 18: Mail Bag for June 2018
Ancestry, Facebook group, Family Cookbook, How To, Join the Conversation, Mail Bag, Podcast, Podcast episode, Q&A, Reparational Genealogy, Teaching

It’s our first mail bag, filled with questions and answers from the FPPP community! What’s up with Ancestry, which of their records are good, do you believe a record over a human or vice-versa, and how do you make your slave-holding ancestors’ info available to researchers of color? There are lots of goodies in this … Read More “PODCAST Episode 18: Mail Bag for June 2018” »

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