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Left: A photo of Grandmother Petra. Right: A dish of capirotada sits on a colorful tablecloth. Juanita MORE!/Collage by NPR hide caption
Left: Marissa Dates (clockwise from upper left), her mother, Ellen, her brother Nathan, her grandparents Bud and Diane. Right: Marissa's brisket. Marissa Dates/Collage by NPR hide caption
Clockwise from left: Juanita MORE!'s grandmother Petra; tourtière, a French Canadian pork pie; Marissa Dates' brisket; and Jim Hamilton's family assembling cappelletti pasta. Collage by NPR hide caption
Left: Assembled cappelletti on a table. Right: James Hamilton's niece Julia Griffin (from left), his daughter Anna Hamilton, his son Robert Hamilton, his sister Susan Hamilton Griffin and his brother-in-law, Jim Griffin. James Hamilton/Collage by NPR hide caption
Left: Mona Grandbois and her sister Doris Adeline Grandbois Ray. Right: Tourtière, a French Canadian pork pie. Mona Grandbois/Collage by NPR hide caption
Clockwise from left: Lily Liu with her father; Alan Mishell with his son; kljukusa on a plate; and Erin Rhode's family preparing specken dicken. Lily Liu, Alan Mishell, Merjem Mededovic and Erin Rhode/Collage by NPR hide caption
Left: Merjem Mededovic in her hometown of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Right: Kljukusa on a plate. Merjem Mededovic/Collage by NPR hide caption
Left: Sujata Halarnkar and her mother, Sulochana Shridhankar. Right: Fish curry. Sujata Halarnkar/Collage by NPR hide caption
This recipe started in Arizona. Now, sisters Kirsten Ayles (left), in San Clemente, Calif., and Alexis Wold, in New York City, make it on opposite coasts. Right: A family photo of their grandparents' restaurant, Odd's Sombrero in Wickenburg, Ariz. Alexis Wold/Collage by NPR hide caption
As a child, Linda Ishmael would help her grandparents prepare Old Kentucky Ham for the holidays. Linda Ishmael/Collage by NPR hide caption
A family photo of Diane Richardson and her brother Gary Kirchherr. Later in life, when her brother visited at Christmastime, Richardson would make the lamb curry recipe their mother learned when the family lived in Nigeria. Diane Richardson/Collage by NPR hide caption
Left: Bamboo buns. Right: Kaitlyn Hennacy's grandmother, Yuehua Zhang. Kaitlyn Hennacy/Collage by NPR hide caption
Left: Jordan Harrison with her grandmother, Judy Greene. Right: Freshly made butter mints. Jordan Harrison/Collage by NPR hide caption
When Ellie King and her husband were married, they had Grandma Phoebe's fruitcake as their wedding cake. Ellie King/Collage by NPR hide caption
Allison Stines holds a photo of her family while she eats a family-favorite cookie: Martian droppings. Allison Stines/Collage by NPR hide caption
Pete Kincaid and his grandchildren Jan Kincaid Clifford/Collage by NPR hide caption
Wayne Wright shares a recipe for lasagna. He learned many Italian recipes from circus performer Edmondo Zacchini. Jennifer Wright/Collage by NPR hide caption
Maureen O'Reilly shares a family recipe for Irish soda bread. Maureen O'Reilly/Collage by NPR hide caption
Left: Miriam Armendariz Piccolo with her mother, Genoveva. Right: the finished picadillo. Miriam Armendariz Piccolo/Collage by NPR hide caption
She loved Mom's picadillo but never got the recipe. TikTok moved her to get creative
Left: Lisa Hovis and her grandma peel potatoes in preparation for Thanksgiving. Right: Lisa's krumkake sits next to a hot pad with her grandma's krum kage (krumkake) recipe on it. Lisa Hovis/Collage by NPR hide caption