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Article: No shellfish needed for this dish.(THE HOME FORUM)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 11, 2007
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Byline: Marla Kay Houghteling
The torch has been passed. My mother called to ask for the recipe for Mock Lobster Salad. She wanted to make it for a postshuffleboard tournament potluck. For a second I couldn't respond. How could she not have the recipe? Why ask me?
Of course, I had it. When I was in my 20s, I prepared it for summer picnics, as a novelty "campy" item. But in the Age of Arugula, the recipe has yellowed in my three-ring binder of recipes not found in cookbooks. As one in the vanguard of baby boomers, I now find that my picnic salads tend toward eggplant or artichokes.
My parents married in 1942, just before my father was drafted. ...