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Message: [QUOTE="jleves, post: 3367635, member: 757"] I've given this advice before on the Yard: Get all your favorite recipes from your parents, grandparents, etc. now - don't wait. When they are gone, that institutional knowledge is gone. I've got quite a few of my mothers best, particularly her chicken soup and spaghetti sauce, but there are countless times since she died that I've wanted to pick up the phone and ask her about something she used to make. Same thing with my dad - he would take my mom's leftover spaghetti sauce and make an awesome Pasta Fazool and I never got the recipe from him before he got Alzheimer's. It's lost forever and I'm not able to recreate it. And on the same topic, ask as much as you can about their ancestry - for many, there comes a time when you want to know more and they are best source for the previous generation. [/QUOTE]