Books to help you capture those family food traditions and memories:

• Bringing Your Family History to Life Through Social History by Katherine Scott Sturdevant (Betterway Books, $18.99)

• The Family Table: A Journal for Recipes and Memories by Georgeanne Brennan (Chronicle Books, $18.95)

• Writing Family Histories and Memoirs by Kirk Polking (Writer’s Digest Books, $14.99)

• Writing Life Stories by Bill Roorbach (Story Press, $17.99)

• Passing Your Heritage On: A Guide to Writing Your Family Stories by Sharon Foltz (Rainbow Ridge Publications, $34.95)

For more books and resources, see our January 2000 article on memoirs and our April 2000 article on oral history interviewing.