We now have a blog, aptly named "A Taste of the Past" ...

Each blog article will take you back into the past and explore recipes, tradition and family.

We invite you to join us and participate by posting your own ideas, thoughts, experiences and recipes.

What a cool idea!!!  My family is Persian and a big part of our culture and heritage and traditions are integrated into the foods we eat.  As a mother, I believe it is very important for me to pass on this culture and heritage and traditions to my daughter.  One of the ways this can be done is through the foods that are uniquely Persian.

I like this group and will definitely be back.

My ancestors are Irish, not Italian or Persian, but I know that my family's heritage is very important to me.  The foods and traditions that are carried over from across the Atlantic are what make me uniquely me.  There are little things handed down from generation to generation that I don't think we even know are uniquely Irish, sayings, habits, ways of doing things that I think I take for granted, that I don't realize are the way it was done and is still done back in Ireland.  And it comforts me knowing that I have that connection with my ancestors and that those ways are a part of me and who I am.