A personal essay by Toni Morrison from 1973 about cooking as a family, “bound by something we could not name.”

The Morning News https://nyti.ms/2IJkJof

He brought us together. He meddled in the cooking and baiting of hooks. Told the older girls how to bile the coffee proper and to get them roastin’ ears out of the sun. He directed the boys to the coolest part of the lake to sink the beer in.

↩︎ The New York Times

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