Make a Family Recipe Cookbook - October 2024

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Description

Learn the connection between food and family history

October 28, 2024 - November 3, 2024

Workshop Summary:

Family recipes are often an overlooked part of family history. What our ancestors prepared, ate, and cooked for friends or family can tell us much about their lives. Cooking reflects ethnic roots, culture, religious beliefs, and geographic locations in our family history.

Join Gena Philbert-Ortega and learn the connection between food history and family history. In this one-week workshop, we'll cover how to gather recipes, organize the collection of recipes, and how to share them as gifts or on social media.

Worshop Workload:

  • Approx. 8 hours to complete
  • 100% online using our eLearning Platform
  • 5 lessons complete with skill-building exercises

What You’ll Learn:

  • How social and food history are connected
  • Where to locate recipes, and best practices for managing them
  • How to archive your recipes, with physical and digital options
  • How to share your recipes with a cookbook
  • Where to take your recipes beyond the cookbook, such as social media or a blog

What’s Included:

  • Self-paced learning
  • Expert support from course instructor
  • Video presentations
  • Student discussion board
  • Downloadable course materials
How FTU Courses Work:
  • Register for the course on this page
  • On the start date, log into our eLearning Platform
  • Access to the course instructor runs until the course end date
  • After the course ends, you can read course materials for one year
  • Instructor and discussion board access will also end when the course concludes, so make sure you reach out and ask questions!

Instructor Bio:

Gena Philibert-Ortega is an author, researcher and instructor whose focus is genealogy, social and women's history. She holds a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies (psychology and women's studies) and a Master’s degree in Religion. Her published works include the book, From the Family Kitchen: Discover Your Food Heritage and Preserve Favorite Recipes (F+W Media, 2012). She has also written numerous articles published in magazines and online, as well as four editions of the Tracing Your Ancestors series from Moorshead Publishing. She is the editor of the Utah Genealogical Association’s magazine, Crossroads. Her writings can be found on her blogs, Gena’s Genealogy and Food.Family.Ephemera as well as the GenealogyBank and Legacy Webinars blogs. Her research interests includes tracing female ancestors, foodways and community in fundraising cookbooks, and women's material culture.

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