Stories & Essays
Food carries more than recipes
The kitchen is where knowledge gets used, adapted, remembered, and passed along. Stories is the living archive of The Food Stories Project—a growing collection of food stories, recipes, kitchen knowledge, history, field notes, and the practical wisdom we gather from the people who feed us.
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FOOD STORIES
People, places, memories, and the stories carried through what we eat.
KITCHEN KNOWLEDGE
Techniques, ingredients, systems, and practical things worth knowing.
RECIPES
Recipes gathered, inherited, adapted, tested, and worth passing along
HERITAGE & HISTORY
Family archives, oral histories, foodways, Gainesville stories, and the histories hiding in ordinary kitchens.
A WOMAN’S PLACE
Women's knowledge, labor, inheritance, creativity, and life around the table and beyond it.
FIELD NOTES
Short observations, questions, experiments, discoveries, and things I'm still thinking about.
Start Here
New to The Food Stories Project? These are a few good places to begin.
A Story to Begin With
Stories of food, memory, place, and the people who shape how we eat.
Why This Work Matters
An introduction to the ideas, questions, and relationships at the heart of The Food Stories Project.
A Recipe to Begin With
A recipe worth making, remembering, and carrying forward.
Mama Rella's Sauce
Mama Rella’s sauce tastes like school nights, soccer games, and a table crowded with whoever happened to be there. I can’t tell you if she’s a good cook, but I can tell you she’s my favorite—and this sauce is one of the reasons why.
The Forgotten Coast & Squash Pickles
A family tradition on Florida’s Forgotten Coast, a jar of squash pickles, and the realization that preserving a recipe doesn’t always mean keeping it exactly the same.