French Chicken
(by Aimee Lee Ball) Kids and food—there’s no explaining. When my goddaughter was about two years old, I gave her a salty black Greek...
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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
Oct 23, 2017
The Taste of Memory
(by Kathryn Brown Ramsperger) Like most Southern recipe books, my mother's reads like memoir. In between the pages—with their oil and...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Oct 20, 2017
Cooking Under Pressure
(by Bonnie Lee Black) (My brother behind me, with younger sister and pregnant Mom) When my youngest sister started school and my mother...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Oct 16, 2017
The Secret Ingredient
(by Julie Tsolka) There is no place like the kitchen in a Greek home. Food is a big deal to us, and attention must be paid. It’s a reason...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Oct 13, 2017
The Coming of Quiche
(by Penelope Rowlands) Quiche. The word, with its one, squishy syllable, seemed baffling to us. We must have first heard it in our...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Oct 10, 2017
The Gardener
(by Anne Blasberg) The coastal breeze caresses the large leaves of kale, and golden rays of sun shine brightly on the fiery cherry...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Oct 6, 2017
Different
(by Helene Henderson) My mother was a blond, blue-eyed traditional Swedish beauty. I was her very opposite genetic offspring: tall,...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Oct 3, 2017
The Movie Star
(by Pam Koner) My earliest memory is the smell of garlic mingled with dishwashing soap on soft hands holding me in the kitchen, sitting...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Sep 27, 2017
Learning From "I Love Lucy"
(by Thea Habjanic) Just a salad and pancakes. Or palačinke as they were called in Slovene. That was our go-to dinner, my mom and I, when...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Sep 23, 2017
Kicked Out of the Kitchen
(by Anie Hart) I’ve always had a rather distant relationship to food, perhaps because I never learned anything about nutrition as a...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Sep 20, 2017
The Ref
(by Natalka Burian) (me, Bapcha Dorosz, and Mom) My mother is an intrepid and fascinating woman in nearly every area of her life, but not...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Sep 16, 2017
Partial Truth
(by Bri and Aleya Howington) Our grandmother grew up in the Philippines before marrying and moving to the United States with our mother....
Eat, Darling, Eat
Sep 12, 2017
Sweet/Salty/Sour/Spicy
(by Neema Avashia) On my annual pilgrimage to Tudor’s Biscuit World—undoubtedly one of the Seven (Culinary) Wonders of the World for West...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Sep 6, 2017
Culture War
(by Dunya Ahrns) It’s an interesting juxtaposition, being fully of one culture while, simultaneously, fully of another. I am thoroughly...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Sep 1, 2017
Everything Just So
(by Maggie Robertson) Growing up in the political chaos of Argentina (the reign of Juan and Eva Perón meant censorship, demagoguery, and...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Aug 28, 2017
Scallops In My Suitcase
(by Olive Ho) When I visit my family in Hong Kong, my mother sometimes puts Chinese ingredients—dried scallops, exotic mushrooms—in my...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Aug 24, 2017
Goddesses
(by Maha Rouchati) (My mom, my sister Chada, and me) Moroccan cuisine is a sort of religion. It contains a moral code, a specific and...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Aug 21, 2017
The Art of Thinness
(by Vanessa Woy) My mother was, and always will be, a vision of long legs, tiny torso, and head of ashy blond hair that spills down her...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Aug 16, 2017
The Clean-up Crew
(by Margaret Crane) My siblings and I were not allowed in my mother's kitchen, except to clean up her messes. She carefully checked the...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Aug 9, 2017
The Party Secret
(by Barbara Ballinger) My mother taught me almost everything I needed to know to throw a successful dinner party. Guests often filled our...
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