Mum’s the Word

Posted by The Editorial Desk / Friday, April 24th, 2009

Mother’s Day is right around the corner (May 10). And we here at the Food desk want to help ease the gift gathering tension by offering up a few culinary treasures ripe for the plucking.

The question is: what kind of special lady do you call “Mom”?

Is she a spirited Southern belle who would most likely nod approvingly at the time-honored “Mama-isms” and word-of-mouth dishes enshrined in the Junior League of Hampton Roads’ homey, “My Mama Made That”?

(Image: JLHR)

Or might your materfamilias crave adding an array of tongue-wagging tapas to her entertainment arsenal courtesy of chef Gerald Hirigoyen’s artfully arranged “Pintxos”?

(Image: Ten Speed Press)

If home gardening and frequent trips to the farmers’ markets were part and parcel of your childhood dining regimen, perhaps Canadian herbalist Pat Crocker’s new “Vegan Cook’s Bible”–a diet defining work that also doubles as an encyclopedia of fresh food care, use and storage–can provide fertile ground for your favorite domestic goddess to plow.

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All of the above are up for grabs.

What we want to know is: what was the most invaluable cooking tip/family recipe/life lesson your own maternal figurehead imparted to you?

Share the verbal jewels (along with whatever cookbook you’d most like your mom to have) in the comments section below by Friday May 1. We’ll review all the submissions and select our favorite(s) by Monday, May 4–just in time to get the new cookbooks in your mom’s hot little hands on her special day.

–Warren Rojas

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