LIVING TOGETHER
A guest post by my favorite flash fiction writer. Mardith Louisell writes short stories with crazy neurotic narrators. Her fiction, essays, and memoirs can be f...
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COQ AU VIN
October 2005, I was to meet my daughter, Hannah, in London where she was taking dreamy courses like “The British Museum,” “Shakespeare,” and “Contemporary Dra...
LIME JELL-O
From the memoir Tasting Home, forthcoming with She Writes Press, 2013 My mother died on January 5, 2010, at 101 years old. Six months earlier, in...
CHRISTMAS IN COMPTON
“Many household food memories are a mixture of conviviality and tension.” — Janet Flammang, A Taste for Civilization I was a miserable child, made more mi...
THE NEXT BEST THING REVISITED
The idea of this blog hop, The Next Best Thing, is to answer ten questions about our work and then to tag other members of our writing communities to do the sam...
MY BOOK HAS A COVER
TASTING HOME: COMING OF AGE IN THE KITCHEN. She Writes Press, February 2013. The history of a woman’s emotional education, a romantic tale of a marriage betwee...
FRIDA’S FIESTA
(from Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen, She Writes Press, 2013) This chapter follows “Labor Day in the Kitchen,” during which my daughter and I cook t...
A TASTE OF LA SCALA
Our sense of delight is in a great measure comparative, and arises at once from the sensations we feel and those which we remember. Samuel Johnson, Rambler #80...
IN OTHER WORLDS
(from Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen, forthcoming with She Writes Press 2013) Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on...
EATING VENETIAN: CICHETI
We are sitting on the ledge of a low brick wall that separates the sidewalk from a small canal in the Dosoduro, a quiet and unusually verdant section of ...