I grew up in a family of great cooks. Becoming a cook is a lifetime of trial and error. Those that love to cook read recipes just for the fun of it. Taste dishes to try to figure out the ingredients. And for those dishes that your mother made or were family favorites, you will spend a lifetime trying to recreate how that special dish tasted. The taste is, however, as much about who cooked it, who you ate it with and where you ate it as it is about the ingredients. I hope to publish a series of family cookbooks that help recreate some of those special memories.