Explore your Culinary History
- Falling Cloudberries by Tessa Kiros
We recently received a shipment of fantastic cookbooks and have displayed many of them on the front harvest table. Here is one of my favourites: Falling Cloudberries: a world of family recipes, by Tessa Kiros.
Tessa captures the spirit of her journeys around the world and her diverse cultural background as she celebrates home cooking across the continents. This book is a pleasure to explore with vivid, colourful photos, stories about her family, and even a beautifully drawn family tree. Our well thumbed copy at home is currently tabbed at the Oven-Baked Fish with Tomato & Parsley recipe on page 105. It’s a simple comforting recipe good for a laid-back day. Last year Eat Magazine posted Tessa’s Falling Cloudberries recipe for Honey Cake.
Falling Cloudberries is a great inspiration for engaging family in discussion about memories of food. Tessa reflects on her mother’s experience with mushrooms:
My mother always talks of how they collected wild mushrooms in the woods in thin wooden plaited baskets. The pines and birches and other trees were at their most splendid and the mushrooms were fantastic that same night, sautéed in butter with onions.
Visit last year’s Mother’s Day post for more cookbook ideas including a description of Apples Under The Bed: Recollections and Recipes from B.C. Writers and Artists.