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Mal Pais

On 8/26/2015 11:28 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 8/25/2015 5:10 PM, wrote:
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>>> When I was a kid, the weekly food section provided a week's worth of
>>> menus, with recipes for the trickier dishes. I wonder how many moms
>>> put their family's dietary fate in the hands of the food editor every
>>> week.
>>>
>> I've got quite a few old clippings in my mom's recipe box. I sure
>> don't remember her putting too much of our fate in their hands,
>> though. I'm sure she clipped them with every intention of giving them
>> a try sometime. That rarely happened. I tend to think she was
>> probably hungry when she was reading that section of the paper on
>> Sunday morning, so out came the scizzors.
>
> My mom would occasionally clip recipes but it seemed like every time we
> found one that we really liked, she not only lost the recipe but
> couldn't remember what went into it.

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