The Irish Mother

"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, than so is th...

"Keep bees and grow asparagus, watch the tides and and listen to the wind instead of the politicians.  Make up your own stories and bel...

"We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season, or spring onions during spri...

"As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm ok." ~Michael Chang Soooo, I had a lonely old avocado a few w...

"A corpse is meat gone bad.  Well and what's cheese?  Corpse of milk." ~James Joyce Hi Friends!  Did you think I died?  Yes, I...

"Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty." ~Lora Brody For years I could not remember the name of the bak...

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." ~William Butler Yeats I ...