Review
“We fell in love with the Brass Sisters at first sight….[Heirloom Cooking] reads more like an exploration of a cookbook from your grandma’s attic, full of warm memories and cozy notations.”
(The Tampa Tribune )
“If you have a hankering for cherished old-time recipes, you’ll appreciate the new “Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters…a fun nostalgic read – and doable recipes, too.”
(Los Angeles Daily Times )
“Sisters Marilynn and Sheila Brass have revived dozens of recipes that represent decades of home-cooked comfort food…presenting [an] edible history in this handsome volume.”
(Detroit Metro Times. )
Selected “Best Outside the Box” cookbook! “One look at [The Brass Sisters’] book and them on the cover and we know we’d like to be cooking in the kitchen with them.”
(St. Petersburg Times )
“Their cooking expertise is difficult to dispute.”
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel )
Review
"The only thing better than the Brass Sisters' comfort food is their adorable personalities. This cookbook is like having them, and a host of colorful characters, in your kitchen sharing their family secrets for fantastic home cooking." —Ming Tsai, host/executive producer of public television's "Simply Ming" and chef/owner of Blue Ginger
From the Inside Flap
Every family has its own tradition of heirloom recipes cherished dishes that make highly anticipated appearances at special occasions or favorite meals that serve as reliable weekday suppers. Passed down through generations, these recipes make up the aromas and the flavors of our childhoods, conjuring memories that sustain us through the course of our adult lives.
Marilynn and Sheila Brass, authors of the acclaimed Heirloom Baking, are guardians of this universal tradition of home-cooked meals made with love. They have spent a lifetime scouring yard sales and used bookstores, collecting original, handwritten recipe books, known as "manuscript cookbooks," and loose handwritten recipes, known as "living recipes." Heirloom Cooking gathers 135 of the very best of these recipes, which represent nearly 100 years of delicious meals, updated for the modern kitchen.
The recipes collected in Heirloom Cooking come from all over the United States and Canada, and include many different styles of home cooking. Every decade since the late 1800s and a variety of ethnic backgrounds are represented, as well as vegetarian dishes. The origins of the recipes and stories of the families from which they come are included, and each history is just as delicious as the food itself.
The recipes are simple to make, and require ingredients found in any pantry. As they did in Heirloom Baking, the Brass Sisters share valuable cooking techniques, and, wherever practical, provide substitute ingredients for each recipe. They also encourage home cooks to begin collecting their own heirloom recipes in the lined pages and keepsake envelope at the back of the book.
Photographs of the delicious dishes, as well as images of the original recipes and prized antique kitchenware from the Brass Sisters' personal collection, illustrate this one-of-a-kind family cookbook by two unique authors.
About the Author
Marilynn Brass and Sheila Brass are home cooks with more than 119 years of experience between them. They have appeared in their own television cooking specials including The Brass Sisters Holiday on the Cooking Channel and The Brass Sisters: Queens of Comfort Food on WGBH, the PBS affiliate in Boston. They have also been guests on the Food Network's Bobby Flay's Throwdown and on PBS's Simply Ming, hosted by Tsai Ming. They have also made appearances on Antiques Roadshow FYI. Heirloom Baking was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award in the category of "Baking and Dessert." They are the authors of Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters, also published by Black Dog & Leventhal.
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