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Every editorial product is independently selected, though we may be compensated or receive an affiliate commission if you buy something through our links. Lisa Kaminski/Taste of Home A cookbook author collects and shares the recipes of immigrant women that might have been lost forever including the beloved family dish that inspired it all. For three years, Anna Francese Gass traveled around the country, toting a kitchen scale, measuring cups and measuring spoons. She’d unpack these items in the kitchens of bubbes, nonnas and abuelas, accomplished home cooks who were eager to show off the dishes they’d learned from their own matriarchs. Anna’s mission: preserve the cherished recipes that are, she says, family heirlooms and in many cases have never been written down. ....