Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. • Food can serve as a powerful connection to family, culture, and memory, transcending language and time. • Snails, a common food ...

My grandfather only spoke Lao, and I had lost the language — but with one dish, we shared so much.

Ken Albala is the author of The Lost Art of Real Cooking with Rosanna Nafziger. He harvests garden snails from his property, feeds them, cooks them and eats them for dinner. He says the common garden ...

• Food can serve as a powerful connection to family, culture, and memory, transcending language and time. • Snails, a common food in Southeast Asia, became a cherished comfort food and bonding ritual ...