Eat, Darling, Eat 

(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...

(by Jas Brechtl) Raising two children and working full-time, my mother managed to create fresh meals from her tiny kitchen in Bosnia...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(by Bertha Iñiguez) Martha Yañez de Orta de Iñiguez. Mi mamá. Loving, kind, misunderstood, and mistreated. Too tired to be emotionally...

(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...

(by Marie Smalley) Concetta Gloria Maria Rizzo. My mother. Upon hearing the name, some may envision the warm, caring, happy Italian...

(by Madeline Brennan) Mom—Eunice Brennan (née Plante)—suffered from mental illness ever since I knew her, but quietly so, until much...

(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...

(by Ann-Marie Lariccia) In my hometown, sauce is special. Like in many Italian-American kitchens on Sundays, my family in Youngstown,...

(by Jessie Oleson Moore) If my mother had been born a little later, she would have been the Queen of Portlandia. She could sew, she could...

(by Isadora Soliman) Any tension between my mother and me was heightened when I decided to turn vegan. In an Egyptian family, this change...

(by Marjorie Kouns) Our family should have bought stock in wax paper and aluminum foil—so much was needed for my mom’s countless gifts to...

(by Anisa Nyell Johnson) Eight different doctors told my mother that she could never have a baby. But her best friend, who was her OB-GYN...

(by Carrie Sieger) Mom and Dad’s date night, with big sisters babysitting: That was when the best of dinner adventures transpired. Faces...