NOURISH YOUR BODY
A Feast for Normalcy WITH VACCINATIONS IN ARMS IT’S TIME TO GATHER AGAIN FOR A SUMMER GARDEN PARTY BY REBECCA CRICHTON
My mother was a wonderful hostess. She was among the cadre of suburban post-WWII wives who decorated their homes with modern furniture and bold colors, attended museums and live theater, and experimented with continental food different from the Eastern European food they had grown up with. When she died, I snagged a slim hardback cookbook from her
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kitchen. The book, published in 1957, was Thought for Food: A Cookery Book for Entertaining Occasions, by Cecily Finn and Joan O’Connor. It is a quirky, witty cookbook that reads like a mash-up of the culinary and conversational musings of Dorothy Parker and Norah Ephron. For instance, under the category “Occasions of Love” you find “Dinner for a New Love, an Old Love and an Old Love’s New Love.” The “Aim,” which means the goal of the meal, perfectly toned, includes one detailed sentence requiring careful reading: “Very complicated. Putting it as simply as
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