Eat, Darling, Eat 

(by Pacell McCobb) 4 lb. chicken thighs and legs 5 c. jasmine rice 16 oz. pitted Manzanilla olives 3 15-oz. cans Del Monte petipoa...

(by Pacell McCobb) I come from a big, loud, ethnic, and a-whole-lot-of-eating family. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t want to make us sound...

(by Melanie Chartoff) My mother was a so-so cook, but a top-notch clerical worker. So she alphabetized all the canned goods stored in our...

(by Melanie Chartoff) 4 large potatoes 1/2 white onion 2 eggs, well beaten 1/2 t. salt 1/2 t. baking powder 4 T. all-purpose flour Crisco...

(by Margaret Crane) (Molly, my oldest son, and me) My mother approached cooking as cautiously as one might approach an electric fence, so...

(by Margaret Crane) whole chicken, 3 1/2 - 4 lb., cut up (use a kosher hen if it’s available for the richest flavor) salt and pepper 6 -...

(by Bex O'Brian) My first operating room, to go along with my first operation. I was fascinated. There was the tray with an electric saw,...

(by Bex O'Brian) (Back in the 1980s, while working for C.B.C. Radio Canada, I interviewed the "Beat Generation" poet Allen Ginsberg....

(by Marnika Stander) 3 1/2 T. cake flour 3 oz. lemon juice 2 t. finely grated lemon zest 4 eggs, separated 6 oz. caster or superfine...

(by Marnika Stander) Lockdown first started last March here in South Africa. The world became quiet, and no one was around anymore. It...

(by Amita Jayant Sanghvi) For dough: 1 c. all-purpose flour 2 T. oil salt to taste 1/4 t. ajwain water For stuffing: 3 - 4 potatoes,...

(by Amita Jayant Sanghavi) ‘’And do you need anything, beta? What did you have for lunch?’’ I hear the love, I feel a lump My shoulders...

(by Stacy Feintuch) Our family of four was sitting at the breakfast table on a vacation in Florida. Our five-year-old took one look at...

(by Stacy Feintuch) (adapted from Tasty.co) 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts 2 c. plain bread crumbs 1 t. salt 1/2 t. garlic powder...

(by Laura Davis) 1. Dig through the ratty blue file folder where you keep your oldest recipes. Inside, find a lopsided mess of stacked,...

(by Laura Davis) For the dough: 4 c. + 1 T. sifted white flour (don’t ask me why; it’s how my mother did it, so it’s how I do it) 1/2 lb....

(by Gelene M. Beverly) My great-grandmother, Vida Iantha Iiames, had 18 children—yes, with the same man. She learned her cooking during...

(by Gelene M. Beverly) 4 medium russet potatoes, peeled, cooked and diced 2 medium onions, diced 6 sweet pickles, diced 1/2 green pepper,...

(by Tayla Shepard) It’s a late Sunday afternoon when I arrive back at my brother’s house, where I am house-sitting. I’ve just come from...

(by Nasrin Rejali) (adapted from The Kitchen without Borders: Recipes and Stories from Refugee and Immigrant Chefs) 2 lb. skinless,...