recipe card microstories: pork chop casserole

guiding light

Ghost food from my grandmother, the one who wrote of baking bread and smelled like anise and oranges. The one who grew kale before kale was cool. The one with a farm and a horse named Chief and a dog named Duke. The one who swapped recipes and letters with my mother before I was born.

The recipes and letters would later become a manuscript titled “Cook & Tell,” and 15 years after its rejection and my grandmother’s death, my mother would carry the foodwriting torch: newspaper column, newsletter, cookbook.

And I remain, last in the lineage. Keeping the torch lit.

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