Culinary Life Review F or Meal and Intergenerational Programs GoldenCuisineCookbook

1. Culinary Life Review For Meal and Intergenerational Programs www.GoldenCuisineCookbook.com The Culinary Life Review Eileen Barrington’s Recipe and Story • Purpose • To encourage older adults to converse; • To give caregivers, both family and professional, easy access to interesting and engaging reminiscence; • To create therapeutic atmosphere for life review; • To attract older adults and family members to meal programs and presentations on nutrition and foster the dissemination of nutritional materials. • Description • This program simply requires that a scribe or helper engage an older adult in talking about their favorite recipes and the story behind them. The scribe then writes down the recipe and the story according to a protocol set out at www.goldencuisinecookbook.com Marika Stone recalls that her mother, Eileen Barrington inherited this recipe from her Scottish friend… The perfect way to record food and life experiences.  Writing, sharing and preserving  the food, eating and kitchen events of life. Intergenerational and Interactive When my mother spent her winters in Palm Springs, CA, she would collect fruit from the trees and make dozens of jars of marmalade to give as gifts. We dubbed it “gran-marmalade”. I now make this every holiday season. Implementation The material gathered by the scribe is submitted on line at www.goldencuisinecookbook.com, and becomes part of the Golden Cuisine Cookbook, free of charge.