Why are family recipes special?

Every family recipe tells a story—a story of humble beginnings, of resourcefulness and of love . These recipes often come with anecdotes, like how your great-grandmother learned to make that special pie during the Depression or how your uncle's best barbecue sauce was the highlight of every summer cookout.

What is the oldest dish we still eat?

The World's 10 Oldest Dishes And Where They Are Today Indian curry, circa 2200-2500 B.C. ... Pancakes, circa 11650 B.C. ... Linzer Torte, circa 1653. ... Tamales, circa 5000 B.C. ... Burgers, circa 100 century A.D. ... Mesopotamian Stew, circa 2140 B.C., and bone broth, circa 400 B.C. ... Rice dishes, circa 4530 B.C. ... Beer, circa 3500 B.C. More items... Sep 2, 2023

What is the oldest food we still eat?

First found in a tomb in Ancient Egypt, honey is about 5,500 years old. Revered in ancient Egypt, honey remains edible over long periods. In 2015, while excavating tombs in Egypt, the archaeologists found about 3000-year-old honey that was fully edible.

What place has the best food ever?

Italy. #1 in Has great food. #15 in Best Countries Overall. ... Spain. #2 in Has great food. #17 in Best Countries Overall. ... Mexico. #3 in Has great food. #33 in Best Countries Overall. ... France. #4 in Has great food. ... Greece. #5 in Has great food. ... Thailand. #6 in Has great food. ... Turkey. #7 in Has great food. ... Portugal. #8 in Has great food. More items...

How common are family dinners?

Highlights: Family Dinner Statistics 88% of Americans say they eat dinner with their family every night or a few times a week. The frequency of family dinners has increased by 17% during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teens who have frequent family dinners are more likely to have higher-quality relationships with their parents. More items...

How important is it to eat as a family?

The sense of security and togetherness provided by family meals helps nurture children into healthy, well-rounded adults . Frequent family dinners have a positive impact on children's values, motivation, personal identity, and self-esteem.

Why should families eat dinner together?

Regular family dinners are associated with lower rates of depression, and anxiety, and substance abuse, and eating disorders, and tobacco use, and early teenage pregnancy, and higher rates of resilience and higher self esteem .

What are the Old and New World foods?

American crops such as maize, potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, cassava, sweet potatoes, and chili peppers became important crops around the world. Old World rice, wheat, sugar cane, and livestock, among other crops, became important in the New World.

What was a typical meal in the Old West?

The staples. Along the trail, the staples of a cowboy diet consisted of beans, hard biscuits, dried meat, dried fruit, and coffee. Occasionally, a type of bread known as pan de campo (or “camp bread”), which was cooked on a skillet was also available.

What were typical 1800s meals?

The foods served varied, changing with the customs of each region, but in the North some common foods were chowder, beef, clam soup, baked beans, roasted pork, custards, oxen, turtles, mutton and salmon .

What did the Old World eat before 1492?

European ate many of the foods they still eat today before the Columbian Exchange. For example, they ate wheat and other grains, such as oats; meats like pork, beef, and chicken; and fruits and vegetables, like carrots, onions, apples, peaches, and cherries .

My Favorite Recipes of 2017 (2024)

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A collection ofmy favorite new recipes on Gimme Some Oven in 2017. So many keepers!

I think 2017 officially goes down in history as the Year I Was Most (Happily) Distracted From Work.

Truly. Between getting engaged, planning a wedding, applying for residency visas to Spain, getting married, going on our honeymoon, remodeling and renting out Barclay’s old house, selling nearly everything we own, moving (with our dogs) to Barcelona…and then movingagain once we arrived in Spain…I seriously don’t know how we kept our heads above water this year. Much less,kept this blog up and running. ? ? ?

But in the best of times, and the worst of times, and the absolute craziest of times…making space in my day (even just a few minutes) to cook some sort ofnourishing food has always been the thing that grounds me. Even better, now, getting to share so many of those meals with my favorite person in the world. And even better, when we get to gather friends and family around the table with us to toast glasses and pass the dishes around and spend real time together talking about real life. Oh man, those will forever be my favorite moments in life. And whether those are centered around a 5-course tasting meal ora pizza we just pulled out of the freezer, you canalways count me in for time around the table with those I love.

So anyway, I know I’ve probably said it a thousand times here, but that’s why I love to cook. And that’s why I specifically loveto cook the kinds of quick, easy, share-able, and delicious recipes you’ve come to count on here at Gimme Some Oven. Andespecially in the midst of ayear of so much change, these are the kind of recipes that have quite literally sustained us in reallife. Real, crazy, wonderful, amazing life.

Yesterday I shared a list ofyour favorite new recipes on the blog in 2017. And, as is our tradition here each year, today I thought I would follow up with some of my own personal faves — some of which seemed to fly under the radar this year, but I wholeheartedly love and recommend. Also! I just wanted to mention here too that 2017 was the year that westarted experimenting with making some behind the scenesvideos(not about recipes!) on the blog too, which has turned out to be a refreshing and fun new project. So if you haven’t already, would love to have you check them out on our YouTube channel and subscribe for the year ahead, because we have some fun new ones coming your way soon.

More than anything, today I just wanted to saythank you for such an amazing year together. Your amazing encouragement and support — especially with getting married and moving abroad this year — downrightblew me away this year. And your faithfulness in continuing to tune into the blog, and try new recipes, and send me photos (eeee, my fave!) so that I can follow along in your kitchen means theworld to me. Seriously, I tell everyone that each of you are truly the best. And I’m so thankful for your support that allows me to do what I love to do.

Sothank you.

I’m sending so much love your way from Spain as we wrap up this year, and absolutely can’twaitfor what’s ahead next year. Love you all!