The plastic veggies dilemma: Growing out of a bad idea
When is a healthy vegetable not a healthy vegetable? When it’s in a can.
Simple dishes with a side of memory
By Kailyn Lamb
As disease slowly claims the mind of a loved one, cooking her recipes may be the only way to connect with her.
Hot pot: a taste of home
by Timmy Shen
The first restaurant I looked up on Yelp when I arrived in New York was a hot pot place. The soothing effect of a hot pot meal travels with me, no matter where I am.
Aunt Spring, my mother and me
Lovely soup: A child’s journey back home, thanks to her mother and a story at mealtime.
Cruise Ship Confession
A mom, under the influence of a cruise ship cocktail, tells her daughter a secret she kept for 21 years.
Eating with the nomads
I knew nothing about Mongolia at first, but food served as a window on a culture I couldn’t help but fall in love with.
My father’s sauerkraut
by Xinyu Jing
Thousands of miles away in China, my father makes a kind of sour cabbage every winter.
Delusions of grandeur, with a side of ribs
My family moved to an historic mansion with a fancy past. What finally made it ours was my father’s insistence on bringing with us the decidedly un-fancy tradition of cooking ribs outdoors on a homemade grill.
Sometimes, the best things in life are free
At the right moment, the simplest of foods can be a feast.
A weekly meal, an eternal bond
Cooking connects three generations of women.
Dinner with drag queens
by Sang Woo Kim
A young man leaves home and family behind — and finds a new family on his own.
Cocido, the Spanish food I miss the most
by Gema Flores
One of the most common aromas in a Spanish house on Sundays, at lunch time, is cocido, and for me, it is a stew full of memories.
Grandmother’s homemade white radish cake on Lunar New Year’s Eve
by Roxanne Wang
White radish in Hokkien is a homophone for “good fortune,” so families serve the dish on New Year’s Eve, in the hope of having a prosperous new year in Taiwan.
Tags: food memories, what we savor
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