Food Network Chef Aarti Sequeira On New Book ‘My Family Recipe Journal’

Food Network Chef Aarti Sequeira On New Book ‘My Family Recipe Journal’

Food Network star Aarti Sequeria has a new cookbook out that celebrates family recipes. Family recipes are more than food. The special way a grandmother prepared cornbread, or curry or even something as simple as rice is not just an act of love, but a story of ancestry. And Food Network chef and star Aarti Sequeira wants to help families preserve that history - and the good times - by encouraging cooks and non cooks alike to write the recipes down. "Recipe journals are personal for me because my grandmother was an incredible, incredible cook," says Sequeira, a former CNN news and HBO documentary producer turned Food Network host and cookbook author who won season 6 of the Food Network's popular series, "Food Network Star." "My mom, my aunt and my uncle still tell me stories about some of the things that she was able to whip up. When she passed, not only did she take all of those recipes, she took sort of a huge chunk of the memory of her with her. My mom was like, 'well, that's not happening to my children.' And she started writing the recipe journal." That same recipe journal inspired Sequeira's latest book