Good Enough for Granny: What's so special about the food our grandmothers cook?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We asked you to tell us stories of meals you remember your grandmothers making. Now Sheila Dillon asks why these dishes - whether delicious or otherwise - stick with us into adulthood. Food writer Alissa Timoshkina shares her Grandparents Siberian recipes which provide the essence for her book 'Salt & Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen'. Blogger Ann Storr reminisces about her grannie's high standards at the table. And we hear from people trying to preserve age old recipes, before they disappear for good.

Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury

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0:38.0	Sheila, have you got any videos of her on your phone?
0:41.0	I mean what a question, of course I have videos of so many. Okay here she is.
0:48.4	This is Vivian who's a big eater now with a wide range of taste.
0:55.0	She quite likes hot food.
0:57.0	And she's feeling herself yogurt.
1:00.0	Mmm. Mmm. I'm a fairly new grandmother that was my 18 month old granddaughter Vivian. It's watching her and seeing the relish that she now
1:17.6	brings to her high chair eating that I suppose it's made me think about my own grandmother.
1:24.0	She produced such wonderful food.
1:27.0	She, I suppose, awakened in me a love of good food
1:32.0	and it turns out of course that I'm not alone in that.
1:38.2	The taste of the vanilla crampas immediately brought me back to my childhood and seeing my granny in her kitchen.
1:44.8	I smell her when you smell that.
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