Beautiful.

Very beautiful and emotional , congrats @ally-le

This is lovely @ally-le.

This is a wonderful post. Thanks for sharing @ally-le

That's just beautiful and heartwarming @ally-le
Thanks so much for sharing it.

Lovely!

Thank you again! This always looks so much better after you all edit it! I did cry while writing this--more than I thought I would have. For me, it's always easier to write about important things than actually vocalizing them to the people I love. I really thought Let's Eat 3 was the most emotionally satisfying offering of the entire series, that it was less about the food and more about the relationships, towards which I always gravitate.

thank you for sharing your/our story - it truly is a food-love thing for mothers/grandmothers! there are no nationality boundaries to family favorites - it simply has to be a family favorite recipe to make it supremely special! and it is especially important to pass those recipes/flavors and memories down!

*finger hearts*

Hi, Ally. As usual, you are captivating with your words. Thank you very much for sharing.
So good you had a wonderful mother.

Thank you for sharing this Ally,such a lovely post 🤗❤

I can never replicate the taste of my mothers cooking. It's always missing something.
I definitely think food is the language of love. There are just some dishes that remind you of your childhood and your family.

Thank you for such a wonderfully moving article, @ally-le. It resonates with me on so many levels.

Wonderful article, thank you!

Thanks @allly for this warm hug of hungry memories.

I love cooking and I learned how to cook by watching, assisting, trying and experimenting from when I was 11. It was because I developed eating disorder - anorexic periods with total fit of bulimia afterwards which completely messed up all my hormonal balance so guys love yourself the way you are! It got useful when I started to go regularly every weekend and holidays to my grandparent's place in the countryside and my grandpa got several types of cancer. I've watched my grandma doing our traditional dishes and little by little replacing her tired and busy hands. It was like an award to me seeing my grandfather eating what've cooked because of his ulcer he'd feared to eat and he had to make great effort to swallow something because of his throat cancer. He had this little émaillé metal bowl from which he would eat and after some chimio he was eating with pleasure because he couldn't feel much but it was so nice to see him eating... I didn't get to bread making, because my grandmother didn't have enough force to do the dough and everything - it was 2 days of work plus we couldn't heat up this huge stone stove just for one bread. She was reputed for her beautiful bread and I loved bread crust the most with forgotten little pieces of charcoal stucked in it. I would prepare enough food for them for a week and at home I'll experiment during the week. I loved to cook with my father. He'd cooked with pleasure some rare dishes and wouldn't stress about it. I don't know but maybe because of the sense of duty my mom would take ages to prepare something and stress about it. But with cakes she was different, that is her thing.

I love to cook for people, lots of people (because of my huge quantity cooking for all of my family while in grandparent's place there's enough food to provide for an army like they say;-) ) and love to try something new. I can't resist by buying a nice cooking book and because of youtube there's nothing to be scared of to try to do.

I still didn't get to do this kimchee! I have to do it!!!

Oh, @ally-le. Just 😢.

This is beautiful @ally-le! Thank you so much for sharing.

Aww thanks Ally, this just made me miss my mom more. I am always in a happy place when my mom visits and makes me food, even if it's just plain breakfast. And just like SeoYeon, there will always be dishes that wouldn't taste as amazing (not that those dishes aren't tasty) as my mom or grandma's dishes.
Those scenes in kdramas would always be heartwarming, when the lead would be touched by the other leads' Mom when feeding them home cooked meals. It might be cliche but it is truly touching. 😭

Lovely! @ally-le All of our (cultural) family rituals revolve around food, so this resonates with me deeply❤

Wonderful post. Can so relate from a daughter's viewpoint (my mom is an awesome cook too) and from a mother's viewpoint - I too love to cook and my kids, when they come home will tell me they miss this and that.

i knew this was going to be beautiful as soon as i saw the title and author, and i was not disappointed. what a moving, heartfelt tribute! just lovely, as always, @ally-le. it's always a treat (lol no pun intended, but i like it now) to get your insights on here. thank you! <3 <3 <3

Beautiful is the first word comes to my mind after reading it. thanks for sharing @ally-le and as always moms are the best thing god has ever created cause she knows her child in and out and her love for kids cant be expressed in words so food becomes the way....lovely...

Great post @ally-le

I am the only daughter of a mum who loves to cook but unfortunately I did not inherit the skill. The biggest loss for me and my brothers is my mum going from cooking healthy homemade meals and waking us up to the smell of freshly baked bread on a weekly basis to a complete change of diet when she moved to a super healthy low sugar, fat and salt approach. The Caribbean food of our early childhood has been trapped there and now we get served up what we have fondly labelled it as ‘diabetic’ food. Only the individualised cakes made according to our individual likes on our birthdays survived intact. I used to have my mum supply this homemade chocolate birthday cake well into my 30’s. I had two one for work and one for me! That’s when I discovered NO ONE else still had mother supplied birthday cakes as adults😳. So I was gutted when I discovered I had issues with gluten so reluctantly I had to let that tradition pass too as the gluten free version was horrendous. As any of you on a gluten free diet will know finding the right flour mix to emulate the wheat flour flavour, texture and appearance is like going on a quest to find the elixir of youth!

I really enjoyed Let’s eat season 3. My review has been added to the season 2 post as I didn’t realise this post existed! Mother and daughter relationships in dramas is a topic in itself and my experiences with the mum roles this actress played previously have been negative so it was good to see her play a different type of mum here. It was hard to wait for the explanation of why she treated her adult children so differently. Yet again there was the assumption often shown in dramas that children will understand their parents behaviour and sense their love when this is actually really difficult for most adults who at least have had the time and experience to develop emotional literacy. Children are not developmentally able to rationalise and understand the sophisticated emotional responses so have a completely different lens where they feel rejected or at fault and often carry this into adulthood and the relationships they form with others. The step daughter’s behaviour displays the impact of her relationship with her birth mother.

Food and youthful friendships are a strong feature in this season of the Let’s Eat drama and I would recommend it to foodies and fans of the slice of life rom com genre.