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Family Dinner: A Man in the Kitchen

When I was a boy, it was said in my family that my mother, an otherwise respectable cook, had prepared for my father, during the first days of their marriage, a very bad dish. The dish was a hot tuna-and-mayonnaise casserole with potato chips as a decorative garnish…

More essays from the Food Issue

New York Local
by Adam Gopnik
Eating the fruits of the five boroughs.
The Jefferson Bottles
by Patrick Radden Keefe
How could one collector find so much rare fine wine?