Introduction to 'Our Grandma's Hands' Project
'Our Grandma's Hands' Seeking Family Recipes Intertwined with Family Traditions that Define Southern Maryland’s Food Heritage
SMADC is inviting families throughout Southern Maryland's diverse geographic and ethnic communities to nominate their recipes for consideration. Through a selection process, up to eight recipes with their 'keeper' will be chosen that exemplify the project. SMADC will interview these ‘keepers’ of the recipes and will follow them into their home kitchens to film them creating the foods that have sustained their family for generations.
Selected recipes with their associated stories and memories will be published on the SMADC website and featured along with SMADC’s 15-episode 'In a Cook's Kitchen' series developed to encourage and instruct home cooking methods through expanding a recipe repertoire utilizing local Southern Maryland foods. The project will also publish a printed component to be shared with heritage tourism sites and partners around the region.
Recipes may be nominated by the current custodian of the recipe, family members, and others. The consent of the current recipe ‘keeper’ or author is required. Recipe Nominations are due by October 1, 2021.
This project has been financed in part with State Funds from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, an instrumentality of the State of Maryland.
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