Did Your Grandma Steal That ‘Secret Family Recipe’?

[Thesauron]

MAGNUS NILSSON IS A MICHELIN star–winning chef who champions local food and whose success has elevated the status of Nordic cuisines worldwide. So when he wrote The Nordic Cookbook, he did his research. On an iconic Swedish radio show, he asked people to send him family recipes. “I got more meatball recipes than just about anything else,” Nilsson wrote of the experience. He learned that meatball styles are a good way to understand Nordic cuisine: Lingonberry jam vs. curry cream sauce preparations express regionality.

 

Nilsson also made another meatball discovery: He learned that people overestimated the uniqueness of their recipes. Of the several dozen meatball recipes he received, “some handwritten on index cards,” many were “exactly the same, even though the people who sent them described them as treasured family recipes.”

 

http://Did Your Grandma Steal That ‘Secret Family Recipe’? (Atlas Obscura)

[Thesauron]

On 2017-12-30 at 9:02 PM, Thesauron said:

Your Grandma Steal That ‘Secret Family Recipe’? (Atlas Obscura)

Correct link

 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/investigate-your-family-recipes