Eat, Darling, Eat 

(by Niya Nolting) 1st Verse Feelin’ down. Feelin’ low. Got nowhere, nowhere to go. Future looks bright but the night has taken its toll....

(by Lesley Martin) It wasn’t the quintessential English Christmas dinner that took pride of place in my mother’s handwritten recipe book,...

(by Mary McTigue) My mother never encouraged me or any of my six siblings to eat. She wasn’t the type. My first memory of being at the...

(by Kate Klein) The three of us stand in our narrow kitchen with blue and white wallpaper. The girls are tip-toe on chairs, holding...

(by Alice Lowe) My mother was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. When she left her mother’s kosher kitchen, she rejected its...

(by Vanessa Stirling) My childhood as the daughter of a geophysicist in the oil industry covered four continents and ____ countries. I...

(by Michelle Cacho-Negrete) My mother was a woman who never hugged or kissed my brother and me and never said, “I love you.” The words...

(by Ebony Dodson) My momma always told me not to do drugs. "Everyone is going to move on but you,” she said. “They'll get clean and move...

(by Aimee Lee Ball) There was something about my mother and summer. She looked great in shorts because she had the best legs in the whole...

(by Yasmine Barrett) On days when I think about my Nan, I feel as though I am forever trying to grasp the highest cloud in the sky. She...

(by Jillian Van Hefty) My mom was never, ever without a cup of Lipton's tea. Like a dear friend, it held her hand, kept her warm,...

(by Sarah Zeversenuke) Every week, everyone in my family got dressed up in our Sunday best (my twin brothers begrudgingly) to make a trip...

(by Beth Levine) “The people who give you their food give you their heart.” (Cesar Chavez) It’s good, not great. It’s just missing a...

(by Hani Malaika M) At the age of 16, I left home in Toronto, Canada, to pursue a career in the music industry. I vaguely remember...

(by Carol Milberger) A child of the Great Depression, my mother abhorred waste. Leftover bits of fruit and vegetables were stored in plastic bags, later to be added to soup or salad. She was a fan of sales, coupons, and specials, strategizing grocery shopping around what was least expensive. Dented cans, hamburger marked with a neon orange “Reduced” sticker, and day-old bread filled her grocery cart. Dad voiced botulism concerns while she boiled mason jars and lids for cannin

(by Diane Zinna) 1 bunch celery 16 oz. Philadelphia cream cheese small jar of green pimiento-stuffed Manzanilla olives paprika 1. Start...

(by Ann Stout) Neither my daughter Emma nor I wanted to move back to Texas. I was born and raised in the flatlands of Houston, and...

(by Cindy Roos Young) At five years of age, I remember standing at my little toy ironing board (the only “tabletop” low enough for me to...

(by June P. Middleton) My mother, Geraldine Bernice Abbott Middleton, was born in 1918, five months before World War I ended and five...

(by Tatiana Gallardo) Rice is a universal good. Across countries, cultures, continents, and cuisines, rice shines as a cheap and simple...