Meet Our Co-Founder, Lisa

Lisa Lisson is a genealogy researcher, blogger, and mom to Sarah! (Love that girl!) Making brownies in her Easy Back Oven was her very first adventure into cooking.

Cooking at the side of her mother and grandmother, Lisa not only learned how to cook, but came to understand how food brings family closer.

One of Lisa’s favorite memories involving food is learning how to make molded butter mints alongside her grandmother. There is no rushing the process, so lots of conversations ensued in the making of those mints. We experimented with colors and flavors and different molds.

Okay, a few of those mints might have been eaten, too.

Fast forward a few years and Lisa enjoyed lots of afternoons in the kitchen with a child standing on a kitchen chair next to her. Making homemade pretzels was a faovrite activities for both children.

Lisa is excited to bring you her favorite food memories and share the family’s culinary heritage. Most importantly, she is thrilled to have an opportunity to create The Food Memory Project with her daughter!

When not writing about food memories, Lisa can be found writing and teaching on genealogy at Are You My Cousin? and on the Are You My Cousin? YouTube channel.