Food – Family Locket

Family History and Food Part 1: Connections

Jul 25, 2021

What food do you identify with as part of your family history? It may be something that connects to a country or culture. Perhaps it is a favorite food your family always made at Christmas. We all speak the universal language of food – so exploring some ways to use it to connect to our heritage is a worthy endeavor. In this guest post series, Sarah Arnoff Yeomanm, photographer and creator of The Family Cookbook,...

Aunt Susan’s Chocolate Mousse Pie

Nov 17, 2017

I want to share our family’s tradition of making chocolate mousse pie at Thanksgiving. After being with the Dyer family for a few Thanksgiving holidays, I quickly learned that Aunt Susan’s Chocolate Pie was a treasured tradition! Not only is the pie delicious and fun to make, it reminds us of an incredible, strong, compassionate woman. My children have never met their great aunt Susan Dyer. She passed away of cancer at age 52 when my...