Book excerpt: Learn how to turn family recipes into delicious super foods, the history, cultural, medicinal and creative uses of food, recipes, helpful hints and much, more. The author of the popular syndicated Valley Gourmet shares her kitchen secrets and family stories. How and what we eat are not just a matter of taste, but also, a matter of who and what we are. Our diets reveal our heritage, values and lifestyles. In the food we eat and the recipes we use to prepare dishes and meals, we link to the generations who came before us. How we prepare that food today shows our evolving values, lifestyle, tastes and growing knowledge. Helpful Hints include home remedies and other hints passed from generation to generation by women whose individuality, strength, self-reliance, indomitable spirits and character, not only linked them, it helped build a nati