Palfrey Square and Beyond: Generational American & Portuguese Family Recipes

by Joyce Gomes McSweeney, Paintings by Terence A. McSweeney

126 pages

Palfrey Square and Beyond is a compilation of nearly 70 years of Portuguese and American family recipes - representing comfort foods and ethnic foods served at daily meals and at larger family events and gatherings.

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About the Book
This book evolved out of a project undertaken by the author in 2020, at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She set out to merge and organize family recipes from three kitchens: her own, her mother’s and her grandmother’s. In an era when recipe cards are replaced by on-line cooking instructions, tutorials, and blogs, here she was with old fashion recipe boxes, full of handwritten recipes, some dating back to before she was born. As work progressed, a book took form. When completed the author realized it had become, in part, a tribute to her maternal grandmother who immigrated as a young girl to the US from a seaside village in Portugal, at a time of another pandemic, the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920. She lived life fully, for 102 years, and left much behind.
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About the Author
	Joyce McSweeney is retired from the State of Connecticut, having worked for the Connecticut General Assembly, and the University of Connecticut. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Speech Communications from Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, and a Master’s in Public Policy from Trinity College, Hartford, CT.