| It seems like every day offers up a new medium | | | | And can you really blame anyone for enjoying |
| online or on television for recipe lovers. On cable, | | | | old-fashioned cooking and recipes more than the |
| channels dedicated to cooking have cropped up, and | | | | new-age, bland, strange food that is served up in |
| individual programs offer in-depth look at specific | | | | some new restaurants? The best-tasting recipes are |
| types of cooking, cuisine and recipes. And on the | | | | the ones that our grandmothers and |
| Internet, there are even more resources for new | | | | great-grandmothers treated their families to many |
| and old-fashioned favorite recipes, as well as forums | | | | years ago, and some people count family recipes as |
| and communities that let you search and share | | | | their most prized possessions. They commit these |
| recipes with other amateur cooks. There are more | | | | family recipes to memory and pass them on to their |
| resources than ever available to recipe lovers | | | | children as heirlooms that are to be treated with |
| everywhere, and new recipes that no one has ever | | | | reverence and respect. In fact, even suggesting a |
| heard of are invented every day. Yet even in the | | | | small change to grandma's traditional recipe is enough |
| face of all of the new recipes and cooking styles, | | | | to anger some of today's cooks in their own home |
| good old-fashioned recipes still remain the number | | | | kitchens. |
| one favorite of Americans as well as people in other | | | | But wait: what about new fat-free and healthy eating |
| countries, as well. | | | | crazes that have captured much of the nation? For |
| While our cooking tools, implements and ingredients | | | | some, it is heresy to transform traditional family |
| have changed dramatically over the last century | | | | recipes into fat-free or healthy versions, but luckily it |
| (think of the microwave and fat-free ingredients, for | | | | is still indeed possible to create those traditional |
| instance), the favorite recipes are still those that | | | | recipes while using healthier ingredients. Thankfully, |
| were cooked up well over a century ago. | | | | many new healthy ingredients taste much the same |
| Old-fashioned favorite traditional meals still make up | | | | as our traditional less healthy counterparts, so most |
| the majority of the meals that are cooked for | | | | people won't notice much of a difference. But just to |
| families across the United States and other nations | | | | be safe, it is probably better not to mention to the |
| around the world. While the way we cook may have | | | | most traditional diners that you went out of your |
| changed, the food that we eat really hasn't. Although | | | | way to make their meal a little healthy. Let them eat |
| it may be presented in different ways, the | | | | and enjoy, and the healthiness of your traditional |
| old-fashioned favorites are still showing up in recipes | | | | recipe can be your own secret! |
| just as frequently as they were a century ago. | | | | |