Cooking Con Omi
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Which recipe in the book made you want to put on an apron right away, and did you actually make it? Tell us how it went, flops included.
Who was the 'Omi' in your life, the person whose kitchen always felt safe and smelled like home? What did they cook best?
Omi cooks the way many grandmothers do, with love as a main ingredient. When have you felt truly cared for through a meal someone made you?
Recipes like these are often handed down by watching and tasting, not by measuring. Is there a family dish you wish you had learned before it was too late, or one you are glad you saved?
Which dish or story in the book felt most like comfort to you, the kind of food you would want on a hard day or a rainy night?
A cookbook like this carries a culture and a homeland in its pages. What foods connect you to where your family comes from, and how do you keep them alive today?
Omi found a whole new audience late in life by sharing her cooking with the world. How did that part of her journey make you feel about aging, second chances, or passing on what we know?
If you wrote your own small family cookbook, which three recipes and which memory would you make sure to include, and who would you want to read it someday?