Poor Man's Feast
The James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, storytelling, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).
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he would have liked my house. (opens the original)
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on the birthday of the world (opens the original)
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The Telling. (opens the original)
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Twenty-five years is a quarter of a century.Twenty-five years is a long time. Twenty-five years ago, my father was still alive. My cousin Harris was still alive. I had recently left Manhattan for Connecticut, to begin my coupled life with Susan. I still had my apartment on East 57th Street (or so I thought). My family was still getting used to the idea that I was, and always had been, queer, no matter how many orthodontist or accountant sons of my aunt’s bridge partners they tried to fix me up w
a list for a complicated week (opens the original)
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on being the enemy. (opens the original)
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