Maria Nikolaevna watched over her granddaughter and cooked their meagre meals.
She baby-sat for her granddaughter, cooked the family's meals, and volunteered at the nearby East Harlem Center, where her granddaughter went to programs after school.
The grandfather was responsible for picking up the granddaughter from kindergarten and preparing meals, while the grandmother was in charge of looking after the newborn grandson.
"Avoir du Cran" is an unforgettable portrait of a French master-cook with the tenacity of a weed, a woman who starves her beloved granddaughter yet creates "the most wonderful meals" for Miss de Mille's sick cats.
In "Passover," illustrated with scratchboard drawings by Michael McCurdy, a grandmother prepares the Seder, or Passover meal, as she tells her granddaughter a bit about surviving in an era of persecution.
It depicts a ragged Edwardian labourer sitting with his tearful granddaughter in a wretched room, a sparse Christmas meal before him.
One, titled Grandma, features a grandmother and granddaughter shopping for the secret ingredients to a special meal.
Since the storm hit in late October, Thelma Graham, 67, has been having meals at the center with the 13-year-old granddaughter she cares for.
Play can also mean enjoying what Barbara has termed "tasty meals," or reading stories to Ava, our 5-year-old granddaughter.
Jefferson, the LoanMe borrower, asked for a settlement or deferred payments, telling the company she hoped to provide a Thanksgiving meal and Christmas presents for her 5-year-old granddaughter.
Those meals never come with a story, or a grandmother, or a granddaughter who's learned so well the loving art of cooking.
