A cookbook that includes over 160 recipes, from appetizers to desserts.
Recipe for a happy family:
Start with a lot of love.
Mix in some firm rules, respect, a willingness to share, and a willingness to listen.
Season with lots of laughter, more than a few pets, a lot of "extended family," and frequent meals together.
Stir and mix frequently. Gets better with age.
When good friend Sheila Taylor Wells said, half jokingly, "We should write a cookbook together," I took her seriously. I think she was probably dismayed at the time, for I immediately sat down and pounded out five thousand words about my childhood. For me, food is also about continuity--and change. I bring to the table today the recipes of my mother, still often used and some, I'm sure, from her mother. I bring a few from my ex-husband's Jewish tradition. So my cooking preserves the past and carries it on for my children and grandchildren.
