In Her Kitchen
March 8, 2019 10:54 AM   Subscribe

An homage to grandmothers around the world. Photographer Gabriele Galimberti took photos of grandmothers in their kitchens, alongside their prized recipes.

The photographer's Instagram.
Gabriele Galimberti previously: Toy Stories, Polaroid Portrait Mosaics
posted by Rora (15 comments total) 20 users marked this as a favorite
 
There are recipes in the captions! Yum.

I wonder what I would make as my prized recipe?
posted by vespabelle at 10:58 AM on March 8, 2019


the sneakiest and largest heist of prized grandma recipes yet
posted by Gymnopedist at 11:05 AM on March 8, 2019 [13 favorites]


The book, if you can find it, is a little easier to navigate (check your local library, mine has it!)
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 11:28 AM on March 8, 2019 [3 favorites]


The variety of backgrounds are as interesting as the grandmothers and the dishes. Maybe not *as* interesting, but still interesting.
posted by Gorgik at 12:11 PM on March 8, 2019


This is great. One of my grandmothers was a wonderful cook and baker until those skills were stolen by dementia. I'd like very much to have a photo like this of her and one of her amazing apple pies, or a batch of chocolate chip cookies.

When her and my grandpa had to move out of their house and into an assisted-care facility, the one thing I requested were her cookbooks. I was pretty sure she had a recipe card file with her greatest hits, which is what I was really looking for. Instead, I got about 4 (!) copy-paper boxes full of cookbooks. Most of them are the church fundraiser or family reunion, small, spiral-bound types (some are old enough to be typewritten), most of which I've found annotations and notes in from her. I'm fairly certain the recipes I really want are in those books somewhere, but it's going to be a treasure hunt to find them.
posted by Fig at 12:11 PM on March 8, 2019 [5 favorites]


Iguana grandma is awesome!
posted by not_the_water at 12:34 PM on March 8, 2019 [2 favorites]


I love them all, but Balata Dorote from the Fiji Islands (black woman wearing a shirt printed with large green and yellow leaves) dressing to match her dish really won me over.
posted by Emmy Rae at 12:34 PM on March 8, 2019


Getting the recipe is one thing, but can you make them? My grandma always insisted her recipes were just what was in her cookbooks. I know exactly which recipe to follow to make her famous bread - it's right there in Betty Crocker. But it didn't taste the same when I made it, or my mom made it, or my aunt made it, or...
posted by Emmy Rae at 12:38 PM on March 8, 2019 [2 favorites]


pretty much just came in to say that the look on iguana grandma's face made my whole damn day.
posted by Exceptional_Hubris at 12:51 PM on March 8, 2019 [2 favorites]


Sigh - this makes me miss my Oma's red cabbage - I never got the recipe before she passed and haven't been able to replicate it since - something sweet that she added. (have a hunch it is apples, but every attempt I have tried doesn't taste the same)

OTOH, it was sometimes hard to interpret a recipe with her over the phone - or even in person - it took me more than a few minutes to parse what she meant by "first, start with an 'east' dough" when making Stollen.
posted by jkaczor at 12:59 PM on March 8, 2019 [2 favorites]




I keep meaning to try Zimbabwean grandma Flatar's pumpkin leaf and sadza recipe each summer. There are so few ingredients that all I have to screw up is technique.
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 4:14 PM on March 8, 2019


Well, I guess it was ok to accept cookies from this website.

Beautiful pictures!
posted by TreeRooster at 4:49 PM on March 8, 2019 [2 favorites]


Awesome post. They all look so proud and happy.
posted by yoga at 5:21 PM on March 8, 2019


These are really cool! Great first FPP!

The one thing I would like is a similar project but for grandmas outside the kitchen. Partially because it's stereotypical (but in a loving way? idk) and also because I don't associate the kitchen with one of my grandmas at all, and her classic meals involve her cooking as little as possible. The room I associate her with is the workshed where she makes and paints birdhouses and yard decorations, and the object she'd have would be gourds interpreted and painted as various waterfowl.
posted by neonrev at 5:24 PM on March 8, 2019 [3 favorites]


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