Most everyone has a favorite recipe, and it’s often something your mother, grandmother or another beloved relative made over the years for family dinners or holiday get-togethers

It could be something as simple as a cookie recipe clipped from a newspaper or a cherished ravioli recipe that’s been handed down over the generations and copied by hand into family cookbooks for posterity.

What they have in common are the memories the food evokes and comfort and sense of belonging it brings when it’s re-created.

Bonnie June Rainey Johnson’s family thought of another way to make her legendary no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies live forever: After she died in 2007, they had the cookie recipe etched onto her headstone at Nome City Cemetery in Alaska, along with an image of the Cool Whip container

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