My mother never went to any culinary school but her homestyle cooking is what she passed on to her children. She taught us what we needed to know from boiling water to blanching vegetables. She always told us that my grandmother said "only fresh food for my family" and she followed that philosophy all through her life. She passed on this philosophy and her traditional home style cooking from her children to her children's children. We love cooking because it is in our blood. My mother is gone now but I know that she will be proud that we are keeping her tradition alive. I hope I can share this tradition of homestyle cooking from my mother to you!