Grandmother's Best Dish
 

Gabriele Galimberti put together pictures of 43 grandmothers, from all over the world, with their "signature dish" and it's ingredients.

http://cellar.org/2014/grandmas.jpg

At his website, in the "Delicatessen With Love project" you can see all 43 pictures.
I should warn you, some of the dishes may be things you'd rather not eat. ;)
Clicking the "More Info" under each picture will give you the recipe.

source.

Thank you for this, Bruce - it was fascinating! I looked in vain for a photo of Scotland and/or Ukraine, those being the two cuisines I'd probably draw from if I were to pose for this project (I don't have any living grandchildren, but hey ... I have tons of traditional recipes).

It's always interesting to see how often we humans with different cultures do the same thing with variations. We make dumplings, for example. We make them with different wraps and fillings, but we make them. And we make meat pies/wraps. And then there are all the glorious permutations of bread.

I thought the Canadian recipe interesting, but must confess I've never made bison stew/casserole. I didn't encounter ground bison until I lived in PA. Growing up in Canada, I learned to replicate my grandmother's Scottish recipes and, later, learned both Ukrainian and Provencal cooking from my MIL and my husband's aunt. Now I'm trying to adapt some of those delicious foods to be just a tad healthier ... it's a work in progress.

My late Grandmadigr made THE best scratch biscuits.

The Best.™

Ever notice, that, no matter how good a cook Mom is...Grandma's better.:blush:

Grandmas rock.

Yes, but being a better cook than my mother was really easy.

Sadly, I never had the chance to get to know my grandmothers, much less experience their cooking. I've always said I'll try anything once. Looking at these dishes, I think I only said that because I've never seen truly exotic food before. :lol: Okay, so maybe I'll try those dishes....a tiny spoon... once. Except for the caterpillar dish. :greenface

My grandmother used to make beef meatballs with ginger snaps. She probably made traditional Jewish dishes like matzoh ball soup and kreplach, but I remember the sweet and sour meatballs the most, probably because they weren't traditional.

I got through about half the pictures so far, and Haiti wins up to now for the most colorful. My wife loves herring, and I want to show her the Latvian herring dish, but what is 'anet'? I can't find any references. Is it Latvian for something I would know by another name?

The seasoning in the picture looks like dill.

P.S.S I had to add the word dill to my search to get the correct results.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anet

Speaking of Grandmother's cooking, I found this at Collector's Weekly.

That
Is
Not
A
SALAD.

That's all.

...you think you're not going to gag...

Jello salad....I heard that in a tv show recently and thought it was a joke. :lol:

Salad, maybe. Jello with grated carrots, pineapple, rasins. Forgot what kind of jello, maybe orange.

My grandmother's best dish was revenge. She served it cold.

My Paternal Grandmother (Grandma) made wicked Roast Beef with Roast Spuds and Yorkshire pudding. the gravy (instant) ans veg (Brussel Sprouts put on to boil an hour before we arrived) left something to be desired though. My Maternal Grandmother (Nana) baked fantastic coffee (flavored) cakes and delicious boeuf bourguignon which she served with spaghetti -in the 70s, quite progressive in the UK ;)

I snorted.

Jello salad is so wrong, WRONG, RONG!!! Sweet weird cow bones & hooves in radioactive chemical colors combined with bitter veggies and the odd 'surprise'. Force-feeding of Jello salad is cruel and unusual punishment.

In my childhood I was forced to consume Jello 'salads' at church picnics/bazaars/dinners/potlucks, and I gagged on all of them. To this day, Jello salad is possibly the only foodstuff that could make me involuntarily bulimic.

Best Grandmother's Dish(es):

From my angelic, sweet-faced, short and squeezable Grandma: Savory Mince with Mashed Potatoes, Shepherd's Pie, Chicken and Dumplings, and toast with Scottish Orange Marmalade. Oh, and her gorgeous wedding cakes, which I never tasted but simply enjoyed from a respectful distance - the incredibly minute and detailed work on each one.

From my MIL, not my grandmother but a huge influence on my children: vareniki; holuptsi; miasa-na-potechkia; kapusta; koteleti; fried and baked chicken; ratatouille; summer borscht; vegetable soup with pesto; boeuf bourguignon; Pascha bread; the Christmas Eve 12-dish vegetarian feast.