Passion Perspective-The History of Baby Bear Stew

This week’s Passion Perspective features one of our very own……….the story began many, many years ago, in the fall of 1990…..when a bay area newspaper featured an article titled
The Roselyn Family Shares the Joy of Cooking“

The article began with a bit of history…
“Cooking is a joy in the Roselyn family which now spans 4 generations. Friends remember special times and wonderful food enjoyed over the years at Myrna and Leo Roselyn’s former home in Atherton, their condo in Menlo Park and at the home of their daughters, Roz Wagner and Nan Jorgensen. To the Roselyn family, food means a gathering of family and friends, sharing, nurturing, an act of love. Now their granddaughter, Kerry Wagner Weisser, has taken the next step. She’s gathered the BEST of the BEST into Baby Bear Stew: A Family Heritage Cookbook.”
And now 25 years later, Kerry’s 4 daughters are married to 4 awesome guys who love to eat and there are 7 grandchildren so far who have all benefitted from this great heritage of family food, fun and fellowship. Over 1,000 copies of the Baby Bear Stew Cookbook have been sold and many have been given as wedding presents. The family heritage of great cooks now spans 5 generations and we hope our passion for healthy eating will continue for years to come.

The article continues with a quote from Kerry……
“Most of the recipes are memory recipes, the ones you remembered as kids, or the ones you want to remember when you grow up and have a kitchen of your own. Being a family of spontaneous cooks, it was not easy to get some of these recipes down in black and white.”

The story in the article of the creation of Baby Bear Stew: A Family Heritage Cookbook.….
“The idea of collecting family recipes came to Kerry in 1979 when she and her husband, Rick Weisser, graduates of Stanford University, moved east. They were both studying at George Washington University. Kerry was working on her Physician’s Assistant degree. Rick was in the Navy and on his way to becoming a Pediatrician.” Kerry asked the family to send two favorite recipes, which she planned to put into a book to give as Christmas presents…..This version became the first version of Baby Bear Stew, a simple handwritten booklet of family recipes given to family and friends.

Check back tomorrow and the remainder of the week to hear the rest of the story of the publishing of the Baby Bear Stew: Family Heritage Cookbook, to learn the background of the naming of the actual recipe Baby Bear Stew, and to hear the exciting news about the upcoming opportunities for the fans of the Baby Bear Stew Cookbook and the future of the legacy of cooks that now contribute to the Growing Weisser Blog on a regular basis.