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Pamela Pérez | The Long Table's avatar

"They carry memory. They carry belonging." Beautiful!

What we pass down was never really the recipe. It's everyone who ever made it — their hands, their kitchen, their small unrepeatable way. A recipe is the longest letter we ever write, a whole person folded into a single dish.

We inherit everyone who ever made it.

Stephanie Wilson's avatar

So beautifully said. And I completely agree. As keepers of tradition and story, we inherit the best of the past, bringing it forward into the next generation.