Saving family recipes: how TikTok is keeping traditions alive

Families are saving their recipes from extinction by posting cooking videos on social media.

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00:00From Nan's famous cake to Dad's curry or Mum's homemade damper, are books still

00:07the main way to preserve family recipes or are we shifting to social media?

00:14This is my family recipe book. Inside it includes some recipes written in German

00:21and some women's weekly cutouts. These recipes are more than just dishes, they

00:27are ways to share language, culture and family history. But it's TikTok changing

00:34the way we pass on recipes? The change from recipe books to things like social

00:43media videos, TikToks, really helps us to capture not only the recipes themselves

00:48but also the other really important things that go into making our food. So

00:54it's relationships with our families, it's seeing the sorts of environments

00:59that we cook in and the kinds of technologies that we use and also seeing

01:03how people react to the taste of things and all of the things that are really

01:07important about food. The first day of Ramadan is always held at my mother's

01:12house. Her way of bringing her Lebanese traditions from her home country to her

01:16children and grandchildren. I want to pass these traditions to my own kids. My

01:21mum never taught me but I was in the kitchen watching her. You know even if

01:25I was stirring the pot or or just cleaning up next to her you would you

01:31would just absorb the whole process. What if I sing it? Can I sing it? You can sing it.

01:37Both Fatima and Rawia learned recipes by watching their mother's cook. Now

01:43they record the recipes and family time for future generations. It makes it more

01:50fun when you're actually filming and talking and you know you get into it

01:54and you get the excitement of it.