Amanda Hesser

Alone in the Kitchen

It’s been raining nonstop now for the last week, we’re expecting even more rain next week, today is Judgement Day, and I’m alone in the kitchen. While this feels ominous, it also feels sort of right, since everything begins and ends for me in front of my stove; it’s where my life as a writer […]

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Claiborne, My Mother, and Me

I grew up in a culinarily conflicted household: my father loved food and what it meant, for all its gastro-cultural implications—it didn’t matter if it was high or low, rich or poor. My mother loved restaurants mostly for their social implications, and when I once asked her what she thought of the 21 Burger (served […]

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