2000 Miles Pavlova
(by Alexandra Devitt) Last year I made a decision to throw my life into chaos. I quit my job. I packed up my apartment. I sold my clothes...
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A Model DaughterEvie Hirschhorn
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खाओ, डार्लिंग, खाने
Mangia, cara, mangia
吃，親愛的，吃
Coma, querida, coma
食べて、ダーリン、食べて
Jedz, kochanie, jedz
Mothers and Daughters
Voices Past and Present
Stories and Recipes
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jul 23, 2018
The Lunchbox Trade
(by Priya Bhandari) I cannot stop bragging about my mom. She's my hero. She taught me self-discipline and endurance at a very young age....
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jul 19, 2018
Magical Thinking
(by Debra Borden) When I was eight years old, my brother went to Vietnam, and my mother set about what would later be known as the Great...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jul 16, 2018
The Tipping Point
(by Lorraine Devon Wilke) It’s a tender tradition, set in warm kitchens scented by melting butter and every manner of bubbling, baking...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jul 12, 2018
The Taste of Love
(by Gwen Ruhoff) Anyone who ever knew my mother could taste her love in the food she prepared. Oh, how Rosalie Thompson loved to cook, to...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jul 9, 2018
Homeland Security
(by Victoria Bubel) Airport. As I stood in the waiting room with my husband and baby daughter, I was completely confused. In 18 hours, a...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jul 7, 2018
Let Me Show You
(by Tracy Ann Chapel) I don't think my mother liked me very much. When I was 16, I realized that she’d never told me she loved me. So I...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jul 4, 2018
A New Life (x 2)
(by Jas Brechtl) Raising two children and working full-time, my mother managed to create fresh meals from her tiny kitchen in Bosnia...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jul 2, 2018
Sweet Revenge
(by Liliana Guimaraes) (With Mom and family; I'm in the red dress) The only things I can cook are eggs and rice. I like everything well...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jun 28, 2018
Raspberry Season
(by Allegra D'Agostini) My small hometown in Ontario, Canada, was the kind of place where everybody knew each other’s name and said hello...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jun 25, 2018
The Finicky Eater of Pease Street
(by Cordelia Sands) When I was a little girl, I hated dinnertime. I was the proverbial finicky eater. I was the only child in our family...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jun 22, 2018
Weight Watching with Mommy
(by Barbara Lippert) At my mother’s funeral this past summer, the rabbi from the nursing home where she had died at 93 spoke about how...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jun 18, 2018
A Language of Love
(by Madeline Smith) The true definition of a mother is not someone who gives birth to you. It is the woman who encourages you, believes...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jun 15, 2018
The Entrepreneur
(by Sapna Kumar) In my childhood, I took my mother’s cooking for granted. My siblings and I used to joke about fighting for the seat next...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jun 11, 2018
Moxie
(by Rosina Rucci) The ancient Romans believed “nomen omen”–your name is your destiny, your name is who you are. My mother’s name was...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jun 8, 2018
The Wiz
(by Bertha Iñiguez) Martha Yañez de Orta de Iñiguez. Mi mamá. Loving, kind, misunderstood, and mistreated. Too tired to be emotionally...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jun 4, 2018
Satisfaction
(by Anna Moine) I am half-Swedish, half-French. The Gallic side won. When she was 19 years old, my mother moved to Paris from the suburbs...
Eat, Darling, Eat
May 31, 2018
Comrades
(by Marie Smalley) Concetta Gloria Maria Rizzo. My mother. Upon hearing the name, some may envision the warm, caring, happy Italian...
Eat, Darling, Eat
May 29, 2018
Finding Mom In A Coconut
(by Madeline Brennan) Mom—Eunice Brennan (née Plante)—suffered from mental illness ever since I knew her, but quietly so, until much...
Eat, Darling, Eat
May 24, 2018
Three Mothers
(by Carla Perez-Gallardo) I was brought up by three women: my abuela Ines, my tía Lucia, and Monica, the mother who bore me. They raised...
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