It might seem like that on the outside, but what is happening, and not meaning to speak for Tisha but I have also experienced this, is that the mother (or father, in my case) is retelling the history of these family traditions and making them seem pleasant and kind, and making herself out to seem like some great mother, when in reality, the mother was horribly abusive and not at all kind to the daughters. But the mother insists on promoting a lie to the world that she was a good mother when she was horribly abusive. So her "cookbook" is another attempt to rewrite history and make herself out to be mother of the year instead of satan himself.