tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742145405650759433.post1350605592339951208..comments2023-05-11T03:57:59.815-07:00Comments on Spoonbread for Hieronymus: Chicken and DumplingsBackstoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15797404416630475968noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742145405650759433.post-83030179594671070952009-01-26T11:29:00.000-08:002009-01-26T11:29:00.000-08:00The thing that food is supposed to do, beyond prov...The thing that food is supposed to do, beyond provide basic sustenance, is bring people together. In this case, before I knew it, dinner brought two distant lovers together: me at 7 or 8 at my Nana's apron hem, and me re-discovering this taste in the present. Nana's kitchen, aromas, apron print, satiny-feeling floured rolling pin, all came rushing back in a sensory flood, bite by bite, along with the feeling that I was about 3 1/2 feet tall, being allowed to taste the parts I liked apart from and before the presentation at dinner. <BR/><BR/>Things I remember about my grandmother come back fleetingly now, I'm so busy with the present, but now more and more often, little transporting moments of magic conjured by my lovely wife, emerging from my new/old kitchen, fold the ends of my life/experience together, bite by bite before I'm even aware of what's happening, like "the melánge" does the space/time continuum in Dune. Soy muy afortunado. Mmmmmm!<BR/><BR/>Thank you, honey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com