“I’m a dump-and-stir cook.” That is my mother’s deceptively self-deprecating description of her style. Self-deprecating because she is not-so-secretly proud of her dump-and-stir-ness, implying as it does a down-Maine disrespect
“I’m a dump-and-stir cook.” That is my mother’s deceptively self-deprecating description of her style. Self-deprecating because she is not-so-secretly proud of her dump-and-stir-ness, implying as it does a down-Maine disrespect
It was not obvious that I would become a cook. As a child I was fat at a time when there were no nice words for it, and eating was