Meet the family behind Oma’s Kitchen
Oma’s Kitchen may be new, but the heart behind it has been growing for a long time.
It began with Oma Gerhild’s recipes.
The rouladen, the red cabbage, the potato dumplings, the cakes, the soups, the little kitchen tips, and the familiar tastes that brought back memories for so many families.
But over time, it became more than a recipe collection.
It became a way to hold on to heritage. A way to remember where we came from. A way to pass along the food, stories, traditions, and family moments that can so easily fade from one generation to the next.
That is what Oma’s Kitchen is really about.
Yes, you’ll find German recipes here. Lots of them. But behind those recipes is a family story. A story of German roots, Canadian kitchens, trips through Germany, old family favorites, new ideas, and the next generation learning what it means to keep these traditions alive.
So, before you start exploring, we’d love to introduce you to the family behind Oma’s Kitchen.
A family table,
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Every family carries its history in different ways.
For us, so much of it has been carried through food.
A birthday dinner with rouladen and dumplings. A granddaughter cooking beside Oma. A son trying to recreate the flavors he grew up with for his own children. A family trip through Germany that turned memories into stories, stories into articles, and articles into new ways of helping others reconnect with their own roots.
Oma’s Kitchen brings all of that together.
It is part recipe library, part cultural connection, part family story, and part invitation to rediscover your own. Maybe our memories will stir up some of yours. Maybe one of Oma’s recipes will bring back a dish your family used to make. Or maybe this becomes a starting point for discovering traditions, stories, and connections you’ve been wanting to find and pass down.
Lydia Fulson
Lydia brings one of the clearest pictures of what this is all about: the next generation learning from Oma, then helping carry those memories forward.
Some of Lydia’s fondest memories are from being in the kitchen with Oma. Birthday sleepovers often meant shopping, dinner, and then preparing a big German meal together for the whole family. Those weren’t just cooking lessons. They were family moments.
Over the years, Lydia went from helping with small tasks to becoming a creative contributor in her own right. She helps with writing, media, photography, social platforms, and content creation, bringing a younger voice to recipes and heritage that have been passed down through the family.
She has also helped connect the food side of our family story with the travel and culture side, especially through Tour My Germany.
In many ways, Lydia represents what Oma always hoped would happen. Recipes that are not simply saved, but lived, remembered, shared, and carried into the future.
Eran Fulson
For Eran, German food has always been tied to memory.
While other kids might have asked for pizza or fast food on their birthday, Eran wanted rouladen, dumplings, and red cabbage. Every year. That meal became more than a favorite dinner. It became one of those family traditions that stays with you.
Now, with children of his own, Eran finds himself asking many of the same questions that sit at the heart of Oma’s Kitchen.
How do we keep these traditions alive, pass them on from thousands of miles away, and help the next generation feel connected to the food, language, and stories that came before them?
Eran writes, creates recipes, and runs German at Heart and Tour My Germany, where the focus widens beyond the kitchen into heritage, travel, family traditions, and what it means to feel German, at heart.
His role in Oma’s Kitchen is part food, part culture, part storytelling, and part next-generation perspective. He helps carry Oma’s recipes forward while also exploring what those recipes mean for families today.
Mike Fulson
Mike is the behind-the-scenes builder of much of what you see.
While Oma’s Kitchen began with recipes, turning those recipes into a useful, welcoming, easy-to-use online space takes a lot of technical work, design decisions, layout planning, problem solving, and day-to-day care. That is where Mike comes in.
He helps shape how the sites look, how the content is organized, how the pages function, and how the Just Like Oma family of websites continues to grow online.
His work is often less visible than a finished recipe or a family story, but it is part of what makes the whole experience possible. From design and technical setup to shop products, cookbooks, page layouts, and membership details, Mike helps turn the family’s ideas into something people can actually use and enjoy.
In Oma’s Kitchen, that means helping create a space where the recipes, stories, videos, and family memories can be gathered together in one place.
Sylvie Fulson
Sylvie brings another important voice to the family table.
Her work has helped expand the way German recipes can be shared, especially for those looking for vegan or plant-based options. That matters because keeping tradition alive does not always mean keeping every recipe exactly the same. Sometimes it means finding a way for more people to enjoy the flavors and memories in a way that fits their own kitchen today.
Sylvie has also helped with editing, writing, and shaping content behind the scenes.
Her role reminds us that heritage is not frozen in time. It can be respected, adapted, and thoughtfully reworked so that it continues to have a place in modern family life.
Andrew Fulson
Andrew is helping bring the Just Like Oma family story into the places where people gather, share, and discover new things every day.
He is spearheading our social accounts and online presence, helping us share recipes, stories, family moments, German heritage, and behind-the-scenes pieces in a way that reaches people beyond the websites themselves.
That matters because reconnecting with heritage often starts with one small moment.
A recipe that shows up at just the right time. A familiar dish that reminds someone of their childhood. A photo or story that makes someone think, “My family used to do that too.” A simple post that leads someone back to a tradition they had almost forgotten.
Andrew’s role helps make those moments possible. Through social media and community-focused sharing, he helps carry Oma’s Kitchen out into the wider world, where more people can discover, remember, and reconnect.
As his role continues to grow, this part of the family story will grow too.
Oma Gerhild Fulson
And then, of course, there is Oma Gerhild.
She is where this all began.
German-born and Canadian-raised, Oma Gerhild started sharing traditional German recipes in English so home cooks could make real German food with ingredients they could actually find. What began as a recipe site grew into Quick German Recipes, then into cookbooks, stories, videos, travel inspiration, cultural resources, and eventually the wider Just Like Oma family of websites.
But at the center of it all is still the same simple idea:
Food helps us remember.
A bowl of kartoffelsuppe can bring back memories of a childhood kitchen. A slice of Black Forest cake can remind someone of a family celebration. Rouladen and red cabbage can make a birthday feel like home. Even a simple kitchen tip can feel like hearing Mutti or Oma standing beside you again.
Oma’s recipes have always been about more than measurements and methods. They are about family, memory, heritage, faith, culture, and the joy of helping others bring a little bit of Germany back to their own tables.
Oma’s Kitchen is the next step in that story.
It is a place where Oma’s work can continue, where the family can keep adding to it, and where members can come closer to the recipes, stories, and traditions that started it all.
Why we’re building Oma’s Kitchen
Oma’s Kitchen is our way of gathering the heart of this family work into one place.
It gives us room to share more than a finished recipe. We can share the story behind it, the memories connected to it, the family variations, the practical tips, the videos, the cultural notes, and the behind-the-scenes pieces that do not always fit elsewhere.
It also gives us a way to continue what Oma began.
As a family, we know that heritage does not survive on its own. It survives because someone made the effort to remember it, and share it on. A holiday tradition carries some of that. So does a trip back, or a story told enough times that the kids know it off by heart. But very often, food is the best communicator.
That is why Oma’s Kitchen exists.
To help you cook.
To help you remember.
To help you reconnect.
To help you pass something meaningful on.
Whether you grew up with German food, married into it, discovered it later, or are trying to bring a piece of your family history back to the table, we’re glad you’re here.