Cooking with Grandma

One of the things that occupied my time during my blogging holiday was the update of my family's cookbook. The original cookbook--the name of which acknowledges our Swiss heritage with pride and sounds to outsiders like "Newest Wonder"--turns thirty this year. For those of you who are counting, that is a few years older than I am. My dad's branch on the included family tree is missing one of its (dare I say important?) twigs. But despite its age, this cookbook has remained a stalwart kitchen companion.