Family cookbooks

Short description: Books which contain a variety of recipes collected by specific families

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Cheesecake recipe from a family cookbook

Family cookbooks are books which contain a variety of recipes collected by specific families. Whilst these cookbooks are sometimes later published, the concept is of a commonplace book where useful recipes are retained and passed on to later generations.[1]

The recipes can be developed by the family or collated from other sources – and may be so familiar to the family that the origin is forgotten or not acknowledged.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Family cookbooks as memory
* 2 Commercial family cookbooks
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Family cookbooks as memory

Whilst the primary function of a family cookbook is as a scrapbook to collect recipes for various types of meals and cooking techniques, an important function is also to provide context and promote familial memory.[2]

Scholars use these kinds of collected manuscripts to give insights into family history in the era when they were written, such as about gender roles, household environments, and women's emancipation.[3]

## Commercial family cookbooks

Celebrities, chefs, and notable families write and market family cookbooks which share their family recipes.[4][5][6][7]

## See also

* Family traditions

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mayyasi, Alex (2018). "The Dirty Secret of 'Secret Family Recipes'". https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-family-recipes-copied.
2. ↑ Sava, Eleonora (8 July 2021). "Family Cookbooks – Objects of Family Memory". Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7 (1): 98–115. doi:10.24193/mjcst.2021.11.06.
3. ↑ Lakhtikova, Anastasia (2017). "Emancipation and Domesticity: Decoding Personal Manuscript Cookbooks from the Soviet Union". Gastronomica 17 (4): 111–126. doi:10.1525/gfc.2017.17.4.111. ISSN 1529-3262.
4. ↑ "Al Roker's New Cookbook Connects Food and Family" (in en). https://www.foodandwine.com/al-roker-family-recipes-cookbook-8708003.
5. ↑ Meinert, Kendra. "New cookbook in memory of Cherry Starr features favorite recipes from her kitchen and from families of Packers players, coaches" (in en-US). https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/fans/2024/10/05/new-cherry-starr-inspired-cookbook-features-recipes-from-nfl-families/75368095007/.
6. ↑ O'Neal, Shaquille (2022-04-05) (in en). Shaq's Family Style: Championship Recipes for Feeding Family and Friends [A Cookbook]. Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed. ISBN 978-1-9848-6006-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=coxlEAAAQBAJ&q=family+cookbook+nba.
7. ↑ "The Cash and Carter Family Cookbook" (in en). 2018-02-01. https://www.centraloregondaily.com/the-cash-and-carter-family-cookbook/article_c188010b-9a54-500a-8c8b-7fd3727b9bbc.html?=/&subcategory=481|Quiz/Trivia+Night.

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