[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by asianthree

Your wife honors her family past and present, by carrying on a tradition, pasted down many generations.
Our grandchildren, spend a week every year in the kitchen with their grandmother, learning to make traditional Vietnamese dishes. Each year they improve learning how to hand mill flour, traditional kimchi, and try as they will a tighter spring roll. Our granddaughter fiancé is Chinese, so she is adding a second layer of Asian cuisine from her future in-law. I add in Native American traditional healing herbs to keep healthy, using a flat stone to grind things from the garden.

Now I just need to teach that her nose will tell her when to turn the fried chicken, not time on a clock. Grits are a day long process, that time is passed by story telling.My great granny would be proud southern roots are alive and well.