A Feminine Thing
(by Nada T.) My mom taught me how to make a pound cake with dates. It sighs with butter. The dates moan, having been sweetened and...
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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
Jan 16, 2018
The Silly Gene
(by Grace Witwer Housholder) Mom always said she wasn’t much of a cook, but she strongly believed in family gathered around the dinner...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jan 12, 2018
Glop Was the Glue
(by Samantha Carney) (Mom, Mimi, and me) I'm an only child, born into a small, dysfunctional family on the south shore of Massachusetts,...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jan 9, 2018
And Yet...
(by Patricia Fieldsteel) My mother was obsessed with food (which she lasciviously pronounced “foooooood”), with appearance, and control....
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jan 5, 2018
Like Water for Challah
(by Paula Pendleton Franklin) "Put some water on your hands, Mom," says my daughter Harper, three years old. We are making challah bread,...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Jan 2, 2018
You Don't Look Italian
(by MaryAnn Elizabeth) "Hey, watch yourself, Jerry, you’re gonna sit on the dough!” my mom would shout to my dad from the kitchen, over...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Dec 25, 2017
Remembrance of Crepes Past
(by Makella Brems) A tradition is only established once its origins are buried by years of repeated practice, lost in memory somewhere...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Dec 21, 2017
A Melting Pot
(by Aimee Lee Ball) There were mixed messages about Christmas when I was growing up. My mother always set out a four-inch-high tree with...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Dec 18, 2017
The Forager
(by Liv Woudstra) The fact that my mother ended up with a truffle-hunting dog and I ended up in a truffle importing business should have...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Dec 14, 2017
Santa Is Real
(by Ashley Stump) My family has always made a huge deal of Christmas. My mum has always said to me, even as an adult, that Santa is real....
Eat, Darling, Eat
Dec 11, 2017
Miracles
(by Barbara Ballinger) From as far back as I can remember, my mother, known as “Gammy” in our family, made potato latkes for our Hanukkah...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Dec 8, 2017
Dueling Christmases
(by Margie Goldsmith) Every December 25th, my parents, two sisters, and I would pile into the family Ford and head from Connecticut to...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Dec 3, 2017
Painting the Past
(by Linda Ding) I haven’t always loved my mother’s cooking. In fact, I used to hate it. But memory does a funny thing, allowing the you...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Nov 27, 2017
The Blue Binder
(by Sally Hurst) When my mother gave a blue binder to each of my sisters and me for Christmas several years ago, things still seemed...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Nov 22, 2017
Shirl the Pearl
(by Kara Fox) The idea was movie-perfect: a Thanksgiving celebration and family getaway at a remote log cabin in Montana, surrounded by a...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Nov 20, 2017
A No-Thanks Thanksgiving
(by Aimee Lee Ball) A break-up with the man I’d thought was the love of my life, right before Thanksgiving, was exceptionally bad timing...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Nov 16, 2017
The Importance of Pie
(by Cherie Burns) In Indiana, where my family lived, everyone seemed to make pies. My mother, my aunts, and my grandmother had boxes full...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Nov 13, 2017
Tiny Pastry Chef
(by Erycka Dore’an) As a child, I looked forward to the aroma of cinnamon or a spritz of citrus drifting from the kitchen as my mother...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Nov 8, 2017
Canned Corn
(by Dafne Bianchi) I always smile gently when I go to the supermarket and pass by cans of corn. That was dinner when I was young. It was...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Nov 1, 2017
From Russia With Love
(by Kristina Zalesskaya) When I first arrived in Holland ten years ago, I had only a vague idea of where I was going. Tulips, windmills,...
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