Chef Judi Gallagher on the Lost Art of Hand-Written Recipes

<p><a href="https://www.judigallagher.com/" target="_blank">Judi Gallagher</a> has a passion for preserving her family’s hand-written recipes. The Sarasota chef says cooking and baking have been therapeutic during some of the most challenging times in her life, including a tough childhood with her father who suffered from mental illness, a contentious divorce and her adult son’s debilitating health condition. So for Judi, her family’s hand-written recipes are more valuable than a pound of saffron or the rarest white truffles. </p><p>Judi is a chef, TV personality, entrepreneur and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Recipes-Chef-Judi-Gallagher/dp/1546242112#:~:text=Reflections%20%26%20Recipes%20of%20Chef%20Judi%20Paperback%20%E2%80%93%20June%2022%2C%202018&text=The%20book%20traces%20a%20journey,autobiographical%20and%20culinary%20resource%20book.">Reflections & Recipes of Chef Judi</a>. In our conversation, Judi shared the story of how she started baking as a young girl and advice for preserving your own treasured recipes.</p><p>You can read much more of Judi’s incredible life story in Dalia's profile of her. It appears in the summer issue of <a href="https://floridahumanities.org/programs-publications/forum-magazine/">FORUM</a>, the magazine of Florida Humanities.</p><p><strong>Hungry for more? Check out these related episodes:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://thezestpodcast.com/zora-neale-hurstons-foodie-life/">Zora Neale Hurston’s Foodie Life</a></li><li><a href="https://thezestpodcast.com/s2-episode-23/">Genie Milgrom: Recipes of My 15 Grandmothers</a></li><li><a href="https://thezestpodcast.com/episode_8/">La Dolce Vita: Peach Cobbler, The New Pie & Edible Cookie Dough</a></li></ul>