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KitchenScraps: Aunt Edith’s Lemon Meringue Pie by Linda Joy Myers

by Matilda Butler on March 11, 2010

catnav-scrapmoir-active-3Post #29 – Women’s Memoirs, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett

LJM-forkBy Linda Joy Myers, author of The Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story
and Don’t Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment

Great grandmother Blanche with my grandmother Lulu in 1895.

Blanche, my great grandmother with my grandmother Lulu in 1895.

You know how it is, the tastes and memories of childhood create a longing in our hearts for times we’ll never see again, for people whose faces glance at us in frayed sepia tones between the pages of a scrapbook. [click to continue…]

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KitchenScraps: The Challenge of Cooking for Kids by Maralys Wills

by Matilda ButlerMarch 4, 2010
KitchenScraps: The Challenge of Cooking for Kids by Maralys Wills

KitchenScraps: Maralys Wills, author of three memoirs as well as fiction and non-fiction books shares a story from when her six children were young and two family recipes — one for a protein rich eggnog and the other for meatloaf.

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KitchenScraps: Mum’s Legendary Scones by Mairi Neil

by Matilda ButlerFebruary 18, 2010
KitchenScraps: Mum’s Legendary Scones by Mairi Neil

KitchenScraps: Mairi Neil brings us a story from Australia where she grew up in a large and loving family. She recounts her mother’s life and shares “Mum’s ‘no butter’ Scones” recipe. We’re pleased to publish this as our first international KitchenScraps memoir vignette.

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KitchenScraps: The Secret of Lasagna by Diana Yoshikawa Paul

by Matilda ButlerFebruary 14, 2010
KitchenScraps: The Secret of Lasagna by Diana Yoshikawa Paul

KitchenScraps: Diana Yoshikawa Paul recalls her childhood in Cleveland, a time in her life that was enriched by her grandmother’s recipe for lasagna. Join Diana as she recalls how the recipe changed from being one that was eaten to one that was prepared and shared with friends.

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KitchenScraps: The Scents of Oklahoma Rain by Matilda Butler

by Matilda ButlerJanuary 21, 2010
KitchenScraps: The Scents of Oklahoma Rain by Matilda Butler

KitchenScraps: Matilda

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ScrapMoir How To #6: Simple Stories

by Bettyann SchmidtJanuary 14, 2010
ScrapMoir How To #6: Simple Stories

ScrapMoir expert, Bettyann Schmidt, describes how photos and effective simply told stories combine to create treasured family memories.

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KitchenScraps: Painful Memories of a Father Lost

by Matilda ButlerJanuary 7, 2010
KitchenScraps: Painful Memories of a Father Lost

ScrapMoirs: Join Marilyn Pitman Waite for a bittersweet story of the early tragic death of her father mixed with memories of a grandmother and her legacy of Spiced Walnuts, Sponge Cake, and treasured journals and letters.

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