How My Daughters Learned to Cook

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How did Louise learn to cook?
Her mother taught her.
She learned from a cookbook.
She learned by working in a school.
Her friends taught her.
What speciality dishes does Louise make?
She makes Bulgarian dishes.
She makes German dishes.
She makes American dishes.
She makes Hungarian dishes.
How did Louise's daughters learn to cook?
By helping their mother cook
By following the recipes in a cookbook
By attending local cooking classes
By watching a video of their mother making these speciality dishes
What is the main purpose of the talk?
To describe how the speaker's mother taught her grandaughters
To compare difficulties in earlier times with difficulties in the present
To explain the importance of family traditions
To show modern methods to pass down traditional activities
I'm Louise Haffa, and I live in Princeton, New Jersey. 
I grew up in Trenton, and my two daughters grew up also in a church that was mostly Hungarian people. 
And I learned to cook in their strain.
I had a very good instructor my mother.
My mother came from Hungary. 
So as my children grew up they became very fond of those specialty dishes that she taught me to make. 
And as my daughters grew up, they wished to also learn how to cook, as well as I did. 
So my husband thought it would be, a very long distance to, uh, for me to phone each menu. 
He took the video camera and taped, each one of the meals that I was making, and the daughters were so happy, because to this day they still use the video film that my husband made. 
And that is how they learned how to cook Hungarian style.