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sharing the world's most delicious heritage

Grandmas Project is a collaborative web-series sharing the recipes and stories of grandmas around the world, filmed by their grandchildren. Here you can watch films, apply as a filmmaker, explore recipes, share stories about your own grandma – and more.
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the book
In 2024, Grandmas Project is being transformed into a book featuring over 50 recipes from around the world, accompanied by unique stories. Discover the dishes from the series' films and much more, and immerse yourself in the family stories that inspired each recipe.
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If you’re a professional filmmaker or film student and want to submit a proposal for your own Grandma film, please click here to be added to our contact list. We expect to launch a new call for filmmakers in 2025 and will get back to you then. Selected filmmakers have to follow three simple rules:
filming their own grandma
showing one recipe
in a 8 minute film
not a filmmaker? no worries!
We’re welcoming contributions from anyone. Send us one photo of your grandma and a short text about her or simply use the hashtag #grandmasproject on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
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Makedonka Stoilova

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Makedonka Stoilova
Macedon
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"My Grandmother comes from a very small village in Macedonia called 'Marvinci'. She is the youngest of nine siblings in a farming family and is one of my favourite people in the world. I grew up listening to her stories of how her and favourite older brother, Borris, would get up to mischief as children. She would tell how they'd fill their pockets with dry meat and run out into the fields to eat it because as the youngest, they only got pigs fat on bread and potato stews. She made me laugh all the time, after her stories she always has a chuckle as if she is absorbing everything that's happened to her and turning it into a positive. My Grandmother was always cooking something when I was a kid. Always trying to feed me- I was always too skinny to her- typical ethnic Grandma. Whilst my parents were at work, I'd be at my Grandparents house gardening with them, playing cards and then in the kitchen picking at the vegetables Baba would be slicing for the meal. One of my favourite meals to date is 'Sarma'. It's a pickled cabbage leaf filled with rice and meat that is seasoned with vegeta, red paprika, salt and pepper. I've never attempted to make it myself because I don't think I could meet my own expectations. Baba cooks it to perfection every time, but always cooks a little extra rice and meat because the biggest kid would always be close by ready to 'taste-test' as I like to call it. In a nutshell, this woman is my hero. Understanding, accepting of everyone & kind-hearted." - Makedonka
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« Talking about food means so much more than talking about food. »
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(Français) « Avec ce projet c’est l’envie de partager, de conserver, de transmettre qui aujourd’hui est important. La mémoire disparaît et on en a besoin »
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“What’s trending right now is to participate to Grandmas Project”
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“It is not only spices and olive oil but memory and transmission”
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“Avós são sempre avós, em todo lugar: cheias de mimos, apelidos carinhosos (às vezes a paciência um pouco curta), e muita história para contar”
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“An idea both endearing and appealing!”
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Grandmas Project is an independent production made possible by you, the crowd. It has been supported twice on Kickstarter (2015 and 2019) and the season 2 is supported by three French organizations: La Ruche qui dit Oui !, Les Petits Frères des Pauvres and Harmonie Mutuelle . We very humbly accept PayPal donations below.
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