This is a highly readable, engaging memoir. I love the interwoven life stories of Schaiparelli, the author's mother, and the author herself. The story is rich with detail about mid-century New York City upper-middle-class culture, women's positions and customs, and Schiapiarelli's creations. I id...
This loving and amusing compilation of character studies of Volk's immediate and extended family is knit together rather loosely but convincingly using food as its thread. Though Volk's parents were integral to her maternal grandfather's NYC restaurant, and much of their extended family was, at o...
By then he was in his fifties. My grandmother’s seders were the same as her Thursday-night dinners with the addition of the three M’s: matzo, macaroons, and Manischewitz. And everybody got a hard-boiled egg. An egg has no beginning and no end. It symbolizes eternal life. You dip the egg in a fing...