Echo of Heartbreak, A Recipe for Life is a short story written in the form of a letter from a very ill mother to her unborn daughter, telling her the incidents surrounding her birth, giving her advice on life, and leaving her the best of her family recipes.
This is one of my favorite short stories. The recipes included were my mother's. My mother was an old Italian lady who prided herself on her cooking and baking. Everybody loved her food and our dinner table was always filled.
My mother never wrote a recipe down. She never gave her recipes to any one - correctly. No one! That included me and my sister.
Fast forward many years, my mother is in a rehabilitation facility because she fell and broke her hip and could not get back up on her feet. Feeling mortal for the first time in her life, she agreed to give me her recipes. It was still trial and error, but at least we were on the right path.
She'd give me a recipe from memory. I would go home and make it. I would bring some to the nursing home. And she would critique it.
"Too much salt."
"Not enough basil."
"Too much flour."
"You rushed it, didn't you?"
Oh, it was an experience. She came home from that stint in rehab and lived another three years comfortably at home. She made me promise to give her recipes to NO ONE until she died.
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