Hands Around the Table

Ah, the pleasures of supper—a communal meal set around the dinner table every night, as reliable as the spoons and forks set at the edges of our placemats. I grew up in a family in which cooking showed everyone just how much you cared about them. Both my sister and I inherited this sort of…

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Cooking It Forward

How do you express your love? Some people rely on a Valentine’s dinner, or reveal their feelings with a supportive word and a tender embrace. Others show their affection by cooking a meal for those they care about. I am, unabashedly, one of the latter. During my childhood, love was often overshadowed by my mother’s…

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