Mother-in-Law Cooking Chronicles: Christine Colligan
Series produced by Anne Noyes Saini
With the help of her Korean mother in Seoul and Italian-American mother-in-law in Brooklyn, Christine Colligan became master of her own cuisine and found that taste buds have no borders.
(This first feature in the series was published on Narratively in July 2013: http://narrative.ly/american-mashups/cooking-in-translation/)
This four-part audio documentary is the first in a forthcoming series of multimedia cooking features.
To create these pieces, we spend time with cooks in New York City’s immigrant communities who hail from every corner of the globe. We cook with them and learn their recipes. Then we share their food traditions, along with their personal stories of immigrating to America.
These recipes and stories honor global food cultures and the immigrants who spread them throughout the world. The project also reflects our own experiences as the children of immigrant parents, grandparents, and parents-in-law—who shared their Italian and Indian cooking traditions with us, in the hope that we would keep these foods and traditions alive.
