Cooking up memories
By Janice Okun / NEWS FOOD EDITOR
Updated: 05/09/07 7:34 AM
The family that cooks together, stays together. That’s a good thing to remember this Mother’s Day. It has to do with tradition, and it has to do with bonding. Chopping vegetables, roasting chicken and mixing salad dressing are pretty good ways to promote togetherness.
Sandy Starks of Amherst calls them “the ties that bind.”
“The kitchen is where best-loved family recipes and traditions are passed down from one generation to the next,” she says. And she ought to know. Starks and her daughter Devon, a sophomore at SUNY Brockport, have been cooking together for many years, so this mother and daughter team will demonstrate family recipes at the Broadway Market on Saturday as part of the ongoing Savor the Flavor program, which features appearances by local culinary experts. Starks and her daughter have spent a long time in the kitchen together. “I have a memory of her whipping butter when she was 2
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