Makin' Memories

Faye Crump Brydels wants children to have memories of cooking with their parents. She says that's why she's published a book with fun and easy recipes and crafts for youngsters and adults to do together.

The retired high school home economics teacher took more than two years to write "Makin' Memories: Recipes & Crafts for the Whole Family". The 276-page, spiralbound paperback book's recipes and activities are divided by holidays and seasons. "Halloween is my best section," Brydels says. "I love Halloween because there is so much to do with children." The book also covers birthday parties, camping, Kwanzaa, Jewish holidays, Spanish holidays, Saturday morning breakfast, tea parties and May Day...among other things. The book is illustrated with both black-and-white and color photographs and provides numerous step-by-step drawings and patterns.

The book also features a couple of recipes from "Froggy Bottom: Louisiana Cuisine - from the hills to the bayous," the cookbook Faye Brydels and Donna Bolton Jenkins published in 1995.

--excerpt from "Book Report" by Cheramie Sonnier. Published in The Advocate, June 12, 2003