Eat, Darling, Eat 

(by Bethany Ball) My mom liked to say, “If it’s green and in my kitchen, it’s probably mold.” Obviously, food was not the main thing in...

(by Coral Rae) When I was 16, I had a pet lobster that I rescued from the grocery store. His name was Lobby. For as long as I can...

(by Viv Jones) Over the years, I’ve encountered many dangerously delicious recipes for chocolate cake, but only one that I know of...

(by Lisa Herman) In my childhood home in the Toronto suburbs, the couch was covered with plastic, with plastic plants for decoration. In...

(by Kathy Lofton) My father remained in my life after my parents’ divorce, but Momma had primary custody. Since I was an only child, it...

(by CJ Howard) I don’t know if my mum would like me if she met me now. If we were strangers, passing on a street, what would she think of...

(by Deborah Weiss) I stood graveside while the rabbi recited kaddish, the Jewish prayer of mourning, for my favorite uncle. Lost in...

(by Kasturi Rout) Now I will tell you one story of my life. I had a boyfriend. One early morning, my mother came to me and said, “Listen,...

(by Elizabeth Aaron) “Hi, Mom. Guess who?” That’s how I greeted my mom on our phone calls as we sheltered in place during the Covid-19...

(by Kresha Richman Warnock) I’m the adult who still won’t open the package of Girl Scout Thin Mints unless I can give most of them away,...

(by Beatrice Fernando) She is sitting at her desk, hair falling down to her waist She goes into a trans lost in a fairy tale Rainbow...

(by Ursula James) My mother, my namesake, was born in Berlin in 1920. The family lived very near the Schloss Sanssouci in Potsdam, built...

(by Nicola MacCallum) Lockdown What's lockdown When you feel like your life has been one long one It’s depression It was It is But I'm...

(by Judy Bolton-Fasman) I tried to recreate my mother’s picadillo recipe from memory and scribbled it down for my friend Brenda. The...

(by Aimee Lee Ball) My mother was brought up in a Jewish family, and absolutely considered herself a Jewish woman, but she had an...

(by May Kesler) My mother asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was ten or eleven, chestnut curls draping my face as I further...

(by Starla Heinz) My mother was born and raised in Mississippi in the 1930s. Not a good place for a Black woman who didn’t pass the paper...

(by Catherine Gigante-Brown) When you lose your mom at an early age—I was 34; she was 58—at some point in the years that follow, you...

(by Lin Gothoni) My mother is from Szechuan, China, arguably one of the spiciest kitchens in the world. When she moved to Germany in the...

(by Sheryl Stillman) Chopped liver. How these two words can drive such fondness is a mystery. But they serve up warm memories for me....