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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loved the food in the book the most. The coffee spilled down the sink, the mint waters and ice water, the end of the tongue with all its little bones. The whole book was so vivid. I read it the first time at 11. My grandmother gave it to me because she said it was her favorite book when she was a girl. [/quote]

Oh yes, and all the thigs Mama could make out of stale bread and a bit of chopped meat. And the piano teaching sisters who subsisted on crackers except when Mama served up sandwiches. [/quote]

NP here. My sister tried making that recipe based on how the book describes it, which tasted as you might expect.  She and I both still say exactle and now my husband, who’s never read the book, says it too.  We also like to say it’s no skin off my teeth (only I didn’t say teeth).

I tried getting my 12 year old daughter to read it and she couldn’t get into it; same with my best friend.  My parents grew up poor in Brooklyn in the 1940s and through they are Italian and Polish, not German and Irish, this book really reminds me of their childhood too. I love it.  [/quote]

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