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πŸ’­ "There's a chasm with a river of pain between us, a river, if I'm being honest, that flows in both directions." β€”Gabourey Sidibe 

Reading this reminded me that I ate a lot of packaged foods growing up. And the US heartland has twisted the word "salad" to mean too many things.

Reading this underlines common cultural scripts: Grandmothers' hands are magical. "Good families" feature mothers who spend significant time prepping meals from fresh ingredients, preferably rare, preferably as they show and instruct their progeny in the merits of pesto.

Reading this challenged cultural scripts: A man with anorexia discusses his go-to meal. Women talk about their estranged fathers, emotional distances that are sometimes bridged with a shared bite. π˜›π˜©π˜¦ π˜‰π˜¦π˜’π˜³π˜₯𝘦π˜₯ π˜“π˜’π˜₯𝘺 π˜›π˜³π˜Άπ˜€π˜¬ 𝘚𝘡𝘰𝘱 𝘒𝘯π˜₯ 𝘊𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘱 by Silas Howard reads as the roadside cafΓ© Jess of π—¦π˜π—Όπ—»π—² π—•π˜‚π˜π—°π—΅ π—•π—Ήπ˜‚π—²π˜€ might have opened πŸ’•

I sighed with understanding when Gabourey Sidibe explained to her fiancΓ© that her father would not be a part of their life. I gasped to learn Rosie Perez' childhood experiences. John Leguizamo's opening caught me, as he linked European plunder to sancocho. I giggled with reticent darkness when Hamish Linklater brought the wrong things to his last encounter with a dying godparent.

Contributors are famous, sure. But they're also mostly good writers and the delivery by professional actors enriched the book (I've started and not been able to finish some very flatly read audiobooks recently).

Something to savor for every flavor profile. And if you snag a physical copy, you also get the recipes.

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