Graham Crackers and the Inheritence of Food Memories
We’ve given you the means to make marshmallows, here’s a great companion recipe: Graham Crackers!
If you are feeling authentically adverturous, Graham Flour can even be found online.
I recently bought a box of Graham Crackers for some theraputic milk dunking and found myself in a perplexing picky eater position… somewhere along the line, a manufacturer altered the recipe of my favorite milk dunking cookie and now it didn’t taste right.
Now I know one of the major ways to spell disappointment, left with my memories, the loss of a taste actuality to a manufacturer’s whims. Taking a step back - how odd that my generation was one of the ones to get caught in the grips of factory forged foods. That I find myself remembering with foodness the taste sensation of foods that human hands never touched?
Collecting recipes such as ones for Graham Crackers, is a means of preserving a legacy through a culinary familial line. Take control of your pleasures and consider yourself a curator of your tastebuds whims. How many of your favorite flavors are created by mega-corporations vs Mom? If you have little ones in your household, remember, you are creating your legacy of taste memories everyday… give them something worth remembering and recreating.
