Good Juju
(by Aimee Lee Ball) There are so many times during the day that I think about my mother simply because of her rules about tempting fate...
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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
Apr 26, 2017
Sole Custody
(by Jeanne Hunter) The only meal I remember my mother preparing was a summer salad when I was three, in London just before the Second...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Apr 19, 2017
The Samoan Princess
(by Gina Pell) My mother comes from the heart of Polynesia, midway between Tahiti and New Zealand—a tiny place called American Samoa. By...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Apr 16, 2017
Little Hollows
(by Aimee DeMartino Tapia) My parents were of 100 percent Italian descent, and my grandparents remembered a time when their ethnicity,...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Apr 16, 2017
A Pianist in the Kitchen
(by Buffy Shutt) Every Easter my mother, Middy—a great cook, baker, and healthy chef before healthy became a thing—made a cake in a cast...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Apr 12, 2017
Easter Pizza: Oh, Brother!
(by Lisa DePaulo) One day, one of her last days, my mother looked up from her hospital bed and said, “Your brother’s coming in. Go home...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Apr 7, 2017
The Baby in the Lunch Basket
(by Rebecca Singelenberg) I’m seeing my mom this weekend. Boxed rice and dry chicken are on the menu. But it’s made with lots and lots of...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Apr 7, 2017
Thanks to Louisa May Alcott
(by Nancy Roselin) Growing up in Boston during lean times, I had little occasion to observe my mother's cooking skills. Many evenings, a...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Apr 7, 2017
Encyclopedic Seder
(by Margie Goldsmith) The only Passover seder of my childhood was based on what my parents read in the Encyclopedia Britannica. They were...
Jessica Josell
Mar 31, 2017
Cooked Into Submission
(by Jessica Josell) Rosie was a scholar, not a cook. A loving, tender, and supportive mom, but not a cook. Neither was her mother who,...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Mar 24, 2017
The Maytag Repairman
(by Margie Goldsmith) My mother did not cook because she’d never been allowed in the kitchen. She came from a wealthy family, where...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Mar 17, 2017
Silver Napkin Rings and Spam
(by Ivy Montgomery) I grew up in a very WASPy household in the suburbs of Washington, DC. We were the non-drinking, religiously adherent...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Mar 8, 2017
Seven Fishes
(by Lisa DePaulo) I stood in my mother’s kitchen in Dunmore, Pennsylvania—outside “Beautiful Downtown Scranton” (I always promised her...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Mar 7, 2017
Boil-in-Bag Mom
(by Stella Osorojos Eisenstein) My mother was a boil-in-bag cook. She could fry a steak. She knew how to scramble an egg. She would plug...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Mar 6, 2017
The Damn Yankee
(by Adele L. Kellman) My parents were raised in relatively privileged homes, but their WASPy families, one from Alabama, the other from...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Mar 5, 2017
The Safety of Soup
(by Valerie Monroe) Last night I shared a bowl of lentil soup I’d made at home with my 92-year-old mom in her apartment in New Jersey,...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Mar 4, 2017
Two Birds Plus A Turkey
(by Erika Lenkert) Last year, like every other year, my mom called and asked, "What do you want to do about Thanksgiving?" It's a...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Mar 3, 2017
Southern Comfort
(by Beverly Weinstein) My mom grew up during the Depression in a small West Virginia town, the third of nine siblings. Her cooking...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Mar 2, 2017
Recipe For Life
(by Tizzy and Isabel Harbaugh) Ever since Isabel was a little girl learning to chop vegetables without sacrificing any fingers, we’ve...
Eat, Darling, Eat
Mar 2, 2017
A Career Seemed Easier
(by Carol Tavris) My mother, Dorothy Marcus Tavris, was brilliant, organized, funny, feisty, and completely uninterested in cooking. She...
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