Dani Lee, LLWP Program Manager
Every family has a treasured recipe, beloved as much for the memories it evokes as it is for its taste. Most families have many such recipes, handed down through generations, squirreled away on food-spattered index cards, taped on the inside of well-worn cookbooks, cut from yellowing newspaper or magazine articles, or jotted down from memory after a favorite restaurant meal.
In the last few years, we started using those recipes more and more as we were forced to stay home and curtail our outside dining or relied on take-out or home delivery. Even though the world has opened up, this trend is expected to continue, as we’ve come to enjoy the act of cooking more and more.
It’s time to share those recipes with others. ACC Senior Services invites you to submit your recipes and stories for inclusion in a community cookbook that celebrates the Asian American, Pan-Asian and Pan-Pacific communities. Submission guidelines will be posted on our ACC website in mid-January.
Coordinated by Chef David SooHoo, his James Beard/Julia Child award winner wife Elaine Corn, food writer Maryellen Burns, and others, the book will feature 100 plus recipes from home cooks, local chefs, restaurateurs, grocers, farmers, and food purveyors throughout Sacramento and the Delta.
Submit recipes that are meaningful to you — the foods you eat every day, authentic family, or banquet style dishes, the tried and true, the ones that excite your memory, or capture the quirks and cherished customs of your family or that you’ve adapted from meals you ate in your favorite eatery,
Our mothers, grandmothers, and the men in our lives seldom cooked from a recipe and restaurants seldom share them so you might have to recreate them by how the dish tasted, the memory of it. Create a new recipe based on old-time tastes and modern takes, healthy or not so much.
The book will include appetizers, soups, congee and jook, noodles and dumplings, stir-fried and grilled specialties, sweets, and savories– recipes that provide insight into our culture and tell the stories of who we are. Recipes such as Pancit, Ramen, Pad Thai to Lo Mein and Macaroni and Cheese; Thai Grilled Chicken, Korean BBQ, and Singaporean Grilled Fish; dumplings boiled, fried, baked, or steamed or those that cross cultures –from apple pie to Makizushi or Frank Fat’s famous Banana Cream Pie are welcome.
We would like to have all the recipes by February 25th. We also need volunteers to help shape the cookbook – from collecting the recipes to editing, designing, compiling, printing, publishing, and distributing the cookbook. The ACC Community cookbook will be created by you and for you and will benefit ACC programs while continuing to build connections with the entire community.
Visit accsv.org/cookbook to learn more. Space is limited to 100 recipes. Priority will be given to submissions that best meet the guildlines of the cookbook. The submission deadline is February 25, 2023.
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