"On holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, work would start in the narrow galley of a kitchen very early and it would go late, until family arrived, until the very minute everyone sat at the table, through the combative games of Uno to decide who would do dishes after no one was foolish enough to eat more."
"I learned early lessons on cooking in this kitchen, I basted turkeys and baked cookies, from the age of 'using a step stool to reach the spice cabinet' all the way through 'clean up the dishes after yourself.'"
"Mom would dump the milk mixture in the bowl, top off the pasta with a mountain of cheese, and add a few slices of butter on top. That rich golden crust was not a mistake."
"But this was a contradiction in my grandma's kitchen: there was no exact recipe for the macaroni and cheese."
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