Preserving Family Recipes with Valerie J. Frey

Many cookbooks and recipes still exist from Georgia's early years, yet most have been forgotten. They sit quietly in archives, waiting to be rediscovered. These sources not only preserve traces of delicious foods that are new again to current generations, but they also hold many clues about what home life was like for Georgians in the past. In this presentation, archivist and writer Valerie J. Frey, author of Georgia's Historical Recipes: Seeking Our State's Oldest Written Foodways and the Stories Behind Them, will lead an exploration of recipes from 1733 through 1945 with a historian's eye. Come learn about yesteryear's cooks and taste of the history of Georgia, the South, and the USA through historic foodways.