Old community cookbooks hold more than recipes: they preserve stories, traditions, tribal knowledge and the culinary DNA of a place. Cooking the Past Forward is my new Glover Gardens journey to explore that knowledge, follow the questions it raises and carry the best of the past into our kitchens and onto our tables today.

An updated recipe for a family heirloom recipe for pickled jalapeños ‘stuffed’ with a creamy and piquant filling. It’s a keeper, my friends!

By using giant jars of pre-minced garlic that’s floating in additives, are we fostering a generation of underprivileged taste buds that have never experienced the joy of fresh garlic?

The world already has enough conflict, strife and confusion; we don’t need beets to go around claiming that they can become pizza crust.