99. Yia Yia’s Kitchen - Lessons learned!

<p>99. Yia Yia’s Kitchen - Lessons learned!</p> <p>Lessons from author Brianna Koucos’ Kitchen teaches cooking, life skills and traditions in her new children book collection called Yia Yias Kitchen Book Series. </p> <p></p> <p>Brianna Koucos</p> <p>Today's Lexi: </p> <p>Παράδοση — Paradosi (Tradition)</p> <p>In Today’s Episode:</p> <p>Meet author Brianna Koucos during a delightful and hopeful conversation with Kiki about preserving legacy, tradition, and family wellness with lessons from the Greek kitchen. </p> <p>A former career counselor takes an experience of grief and turns it into moments of joy, tradition, and life skills with the memory of her Yia Yia while writing her new</p> <p>Yia Yia’s Book Series.  These books, one on Patience, one on Honesty and the third book about Family Tradition are excellent ways for adults to bond with their children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, friends and loved ones.</p> <p>Hear about….</p> <ul><li>How children learn how to be patient through making a meal, preparing a meal correctly and doing it all with love.</li> <li>Children learning life skills.</li> <li>The value of making something start to finish.</li> <li>Discovering what the younger generation can learn from a person born in 1916 and so much more.</li> </ul> <p>Brianna Koucos Midgley grew up in Salt Lake City, UT in a family who loved their Greek heritage and Orthodox faith. Among her fondest childhood memories are the times she spent with her beloved yiayia (Greek for grandmother). In Yiayia’s kitchen, she was not only showered with love, but learned many valuable lessons. Those memories have stayed with her throughout her life, inspiring and shaping her as a person and as a mom.</p> <p>With her young daughter, and now with her readers, she shares stories of her yiayia and those special moments. From passing down Greek family traditions, to life lessons, Brianna shares her grandmother’s timeless wisdom in her Yiayia’s Kitchen book series. This celebration of the special bond between grandparents and grandchild