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By Kristen | November 8, 2006
My mom, the brilliant gift-giver that she is, managed to combined my two favorite things — cooking and New York — into one gift. She gave me a copy of a cookbook I’d never even heard of before: New York Cookbook: From Pelham Bay to Park Avenue, Firehouses to Four-Star Restaurants by Molly O’Neill.
I’ve yet to cook a single item from it, and it’s already one of my favorite cookbooks. It’s been on my counter for a couple days, and I can’t walk past it without stopping to pick it up and leaf through it. Why? Because nearly every recipe starts with something like this:
- Nicole Buisson, a manicurist in Manhattan, was taught to make this dish by her mother while growing up in Haiti and now cooks it for her daughter and son before going to work in the morning.
- Zoe Morsette, who lives in Long Island City, says, “This is a favorite cookie that my Norwegian-American mother brought east from Minnesota. I believe that she found the recipe ina Lutheran churchwomen’s cookbook in Duluth.”
- Maria Behr’s recipe for potato pizza or focaccia combines the two recipes of her grandmothers, who came from different parts of Bari, Italy.
A food you ate as a kid that you now make for your kids. The cookies your mother made from the local church’s cookbook. The recipe you made up yourself based on the recipes of your grandmothers. Real food, made by real people. Can food get any more gezellig than that? I kinda doubt it.
Topics: Make Your Life Gezellig, Cooking Gear |
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November 9th, 2006 at 1:04 am
This book sounds awesome! Why haven’t I heard of this!
November 9th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
I hadn’t heard of it either until I opened the box my mom sent. It’s still in print, though, according to Amazon.