Our First Post!
Shubie’s Kitchen was born of a deep love of food - a love that is tied to our family and our roots. Susie and Andrew are the youngest two of Marty and Julie King’s eleven children. Feeding eleven kids was a labor of love (emphasis on labor), and Mom and Dad worked hard to put food on the table every night. Mom could stretch out a 9” x 13” pan, and some nights the battle for seconds was fierce, but there was always usually enough.
As we each grew into our own, we all found our ways into the kitchen and built upon the foundation we learned at Mom’s apron strings. As we grew older, and started making our way out into the world, we always found our way back home; home to loud and raucous holiday meals, each of us trying to one-up one another with this or that new recipe or technique. Even family camping trips down in the Ozarks became culinary adventures, with extravagant spreads of cheeses, olives, and exotic snacks pulled from the four corners of the globe, and truly gluttonous feasts cooked over the campfire.
We developed an attentiveness to food. The particular and specific attentiveness of a parent to their newborn child. As a family, if we were not in the process of cooking or eating food, then we were talking about food. Talking about the meals we had or were going to have, or the newest restaurants in town, or the old standards and every little detail that made it great. We could (and do) go on and on about the recipes we were developing that we’d surely bring to the next family gathering.
These memories are both specific and universal. Indeed, there is a great commonality in the love of food and family, and there is a great joy in sharing memories and traditions with new friends, and in creating altogether new memories and traditions.
Shubie’s is about sharing with Rotterdam - our new home - the foodways and traditions of our old home. It is with great affection that we bring these delicious treats to your table, and to create together a new conversation about food, tradition, memory, and love.
