Eat, Darling, EatMar 8, 2017Seven Fishes(by Lisa DePaulo) I stood in my mother’s kitchen in Dunmore, Pennsylvania—outside “Beautiful Downtown Scranton” (I always promised her...
Eat, Darling, EatMar 7, 2017Boil-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, EatMar 6, 2017The 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, EatMar 5, 2017The 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,...