FOODFIC: Please Welcome Carole Bumpus, Author of Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table
If you tell me what you eat, I can tell you where you're from by Carole Bumpus While traveling in Europe, have you ever strolled down a cobblestone street, passed an open window and heard laughter flowing out to greet you? Have you ever stopped to listen to the banter while wondering what it would be like to live there? In that house? That village? And, oooooh! What is that wonderful aroma? Say, what are they eating? I did too. My book series, Savoring the Olde Ways , is a compilation of intimate interviews, conversations, stories and recipes I had the good fortune to gather from European families as I traveled throughout their countries. Part culinary memoir and part travelogue, these books are the personal stories told to me by individual families—from inside their homes along those very cobblestone streets. As a retired family therapist, my initial interests were about the families themselves. But as a lover of traditional foods a...
