Adams says her father especially enjoyed the cream of mushroom soup; it was a new recipe she made for him: “I’ve always known the importance of food through bringing people together and nurturing them, but I also learned that food can be enormously healing. This was how I could say goodbye with love. I put all of myself into that soup.” She also shared that “through my father’s death, I learned so much about life.”
Joy is one of 20 well-known chefs whose personal stories of loss, along with favorite family recipes, are included in a new digital cookbook, “The Endless Table: Recipes from Departed Loved Ones.” The book also reminds readers how important it is to have conversations with family members about their end of life wishes. It even has a helpful guide to getting what is not an easy conversation started.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ellen Goodman, who co-edited the cookbook, is also co-founder of The Conversation Project, which works to encourage families to have these often difficult, but necessary discussions.
Goodman shared in a TED talk: “For some, talking about death is like letting it in the room. The end of life isn’t just a medical thing that happens, it’s a human experience. People aren’t dying the way they want to or having their wishes honored…so having a conversation like this is a gift you give your family.”
As another Boston chef, Jasper White, put it: “Love never dies. Neither do recipes, and it’s a wonderful way to remember someone.”
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CNN, 4/18/16
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