Grandma’s Kitchen Classes Share and Pass on Family Recipes and Culinary Tips

The best recipes are often the ones we grew up with

Barb Knezovich puts the lid on her pasta meal while Darlene Allen serves herself some eggplant pasta at the Carnegie Library of McKeesport on Friday, March 28, 2025. Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette/TNS

The best recipes—or at least the ones that make us feel all warm and cozy inside—are often the ones we grew up with.

There’s something special about dishes that have been handed down from grandparent to parent to child and made time and again. And if each succeeding generation of cooks tweaks the instructions or modifies the list of ingredients along the way, it probably only makes it better.