Tastes Like Home Cookbook from Around the World

by Bob Montgomery

The Huron County Immigration Partnership has partnered with Huron County Cultural Services and Taste of Huron to put together a cookbook full of recipes for foods that taste like home, in time for the holidays. Immigration Partnership Manager Mark Nonkes says home in this case could be Bobotie from South African, Polish Golabki, Indian Dosa, and Syrian Kibbeh, to American Peach Cobbler and the popular Dutch holiday treat Oliebollen.

Nonkes says the recipes were contributed by members of the community, many of the people who are new to Canada and others who have lived here for generations. He says when the cookbook process started people were asked to talk about their recipe as a way to share some of their culture with others in order to get to know other people and create connections over the love of food and how it reminds them of home. Artists were invited to draw pictures to help illustrate the cookbook.

The cookbooks are almost sold out but there are a few left at the county's libraries or at the Huron County Museum.

photo courtesy of Huron County Immigration Partnership