I recall cooking my youngest daughter celeriac mash for the first time: it was met with a deep reluctance.
Abigail Edwards Field, now 105 years old, describes in one interview the deaths of her husband and two brothers while fishing in the 1938 storm, and in another conversation fondly recalls cooking bunker, now used as a baitfish.
I can recall cooking heroin in the bottom of a busted up Pepsi can.
The New York Times Craigg Claiborne, who discovered Hazan when, as she recalled, "my cooking had been simply of the wifely and motherly kind," called her "a national treasure".
You know, I can recall my mother cooking and maybe some grease popped on her arm, and her saying "Shiiiit!" At home we're all just real people.
I can recall my mother cooking meals straight from Campbell's soup cans bought at the local A&P, and often forgetting to add the designated milk or water, but I remember that her decency was made from scratch.
Although I don't recall my dad cooking a single meal during my childhood (except BBQ, which every Texan male does starting at birth), he took up gourmet cooking and started shopping for high-end ingredients at the fanciest market in town, where we had never shopped as a family.
Charlotte Wehrle, Leonard's eighty-seven-year-old mother, who did all the cooking, recalled, "The first day we opened, we realized we'd forgotten pots.
"Suddenly we heard an explosion and there was a big blast," recalled Abbas, who was cooking kebab sandwiches for the pilgrims in the back of the tent.
