Following the success of the first workshop and the resulting book publication, Finding Memories, Tracing Routes (English and bilingual English-Chinese editions), CCHSBC held a second writing workshop with the theme of Food and Family. While the first workshop had eight participants, the second workshop nearly tripled in size. Twenty-three participants of Chinese Canadian or Aboriginal backgrounds researched, discussed, and wrote their memories of family gatherings, home cooking, restaurant outings, and other stories cooked up by the smells, tastes, sounds, sights, and textures that bring families and communities together. In addition to the stories, there are 37 recipes and over 170 photographs and images. Additional contributors include Imogene Lim, Lisa Moore, Janice Wong, and Henry Yu.
George McWhirter, Vancouver's Poet Laureate, says of this groundbreaking collection: I want one of those meals and to be in one of those families. If I can t be that in actuality, these stories make me a guest of all, complete with recipes for me to try out on my own, after. These are more than literate tellings of family food rituals and recipes; they are elegantly and pungently related. . .In the process, these pieces become evocative literature and unforgettable history.

Editor and workshop facilitator Brandy Liên Worrall states: This collection is amazing in terms of the scope of experiences in these Canadian communities, from the 1930s all the way to present day. Reading these stories is just like sitting in a Chinatown café eating apple tarts in the 1960s or going to a barbecue at the reservation, catching salmon and having a good time. This is really history you can eat.

Writers include Jacquie Adams, Jennifer Chan, Shirley Chan, Allan Cho, Grace Chow, Lilly Chow, Betty Ho, George Jung, Jackie Lee-Son, Roy Mah, Gordy Mark, Amy Perrault, Dan Seto, Bob Sung, Hayne Wai, Evelyn Wong, Larry Wong, Todd Wong, Harley A. Wylie, May Yan-Mountain, Candace Yip, Gail Yip, and Ken Yip.