foreword Memories are of many types, some harsh and some soft, some happy some sad. We love to remind ourselves of good memories and educate others of bad memories in the hope they may become wiser in the future. Our memory of childhood food, can be with us for our entire life, while just the smell of a food can bring good and bad memories flooding back. The following are just a few accounts of the memories of the students attending the Coventry Adult Education Family History Class of Autumn 2021 and Spring 2022 run by Peterson Cobbett. Please note All Copyright Ownership of text and images is retained by the original authors. Also All student work was originally produced for private research, so where image copyright was questioned, images have been removed until copyright can be confirmed.
Table of Contents Chapter 1………………………..….... Food Likes and dislikes by Judith Smith Chapter 2…………….………………….…. Love it or Hate it by Angela Dean Chapter 3………………………………Food in my Childhood by Kathy White Chapter 4…………………………...Food, Glorious Food by Stella Turner Chapter 5………………………… Food of my childhood by Tony Thompson Chapter 6………………………An Iconic Food of My Youth by Helen Tipping Chapter 7…………………………… Food Glorious Food by Pauline Tasker Chapter 8………………………..….Food When I Was Young by Nick Archer Chapter 9…………… Becoming a vegetarian in the 1980s by Sue Goodwin Chapter 10………………………….…FOOD FOR THOUGHT by Phil Clothier Chapter 11………………………………Christmas Dinner by Stephen Binnie Chapter 12………………….…….My Food Loves and Hates by Andrew Cox Chapter 13…………..… Food that invokes memories by Catharine Rodber Chapter 14…………………….. A memory of good times by Lesley Dowding Chapter 15……………………………………….. My food memories by Carol Kimber Chapter 16……………….... Memories of my childhood food by Christine Binnie Chapter 17………………………………………....Two family recipes from Sue Ramsey Chapter 18……………………………………….....My Food Memories By Jill Checklin Chapter 19…………. Memories of Food when I was young by Teresa Johnson Chapter 20………………................................ Food memories by Penny Hughes Chapter 21………………................................ Food memories by Jackie Thompson
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Tony Thompson
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Helen Tipping
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Food When I Was Young by Nick Archer
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Sue Goodwin
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MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD FOOD BY CHRISTINE BINNIE 16 Well, going back in time to when I was a lot younger my memories of actual recipes are quite vague. My Nan and Grandad also lived with my Mum and Dad and me. I will always remember going out into our back garden and picking some mint then helping to chop it up very finely adding a bit of salt and sugar then pouring vinegar all over it and this we would have with our Sunday dinner of lamb, roast potatoes and fresh vegetables although at the time I was not really into carrots but liked peas which we had also podded. We used to have Apple Trees, Redcurrant and Blackcurrant bushes, and Gooseberries in our back garden. Our Apple tree was cooking apples and I always remember kids scrumping them then realising that they were too sour to eat without being cooked. My Nan would bake lovely apple pies. For Sunday tea my mum would make potato cake’s, she would slice them in half and put butter on them, they were delicious, but how she made them I do not remember. One thing I do remember is that my Dad would have tripe on a Saturday, but no one else in the family ever ate it I certainly did not want any. What do you think ? I did like to have cheese sliced and onions baked in milk done under the grille. I did not like a lot of salad, well not at all when I was young as I remember on a Friday we always had a salad in School, the Teachers would always try to encourage me to eat it and I would try and hide it under other food but as time went on I began to like some a bit more but I only really got to like all types of salad when I was a lot older.
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