Recipe Preservation Quotes

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

To me, my recipes are priceless.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

My husband, Vivek Deora - he is very meticulous about cooking, and slowly and lovingly makes his family recipes, handed down generations.

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me.

With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?