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Back to the Family
By: Art SmitheBook Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: Thomas Nelson
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Back to the Family is a companion to Art Smith's New York Times bestseller and James Beard award-winning cookbook, Back to the Table . Smith is the personal chef to Oprah Winfrey and a contributing editor to O Magazine .
This book encourages readers to better understand the importance of valuing the ones you love through cooking and communing with food. Most importantly Back to the Family stresses the importance of recognizing old food traditions (family recipes, meals, memories, etc.) and the equal importance of creating new and healthier food traditions. More than 150 recipes and more than 140 photographs provide a wonderful evocative eating and reading experience.
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| Title of eBook: Back to the Family | |
| Release Date: 03-13-2007 | |
| Publisher: Thomas Nelson |
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| SKU | 9781418576882 |
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Back to the Family
Chapter One
Finding Your Family in the World
If we are lucky, in our ever-changing world, family is one thing that holds constant. Coming from small-town America and having planted myself squarely in the urban bustle of Chicago, I am constantly amazed at how readily the human spirit adapts to change.
Kindred Spirits
Growing up I had no idea so many people could live so closely together! But in the glorious crowds and life-affirming energy of my new hometown, I have found that similar interests and love have attracted people like me. We always seem to find each other. In the South we have a word for it-kin. And yes, technically it means those who share a common ancestry, but in a broader sense it also refers to people who think like we do, feel like we do, and love like we do. Kindred spirits. If we are lucky, those people become the fabric of our new families.
That is what happened to me, as soon as I realized it was possible for me to love others the same way I love my family in northern Florida. These newfound friends became my new family. What I found interesting was how many of these new friends came from similar situations and how many of them traveled around the world to live in America and raise their families in Chicago. We share a passion for our art and recognize the sacrifices we have made to achieve our dreams. We also have a common love for our families "back home."
Chicago
Chicago is a place packed tight with concrete high-rises and hard edges, but it is also smack dab in the center of the Midwest, where miles and miles of some of the world's most fertile growing soil separat
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