Article: Cooking with Mom.(a daughter reflects on her relationship with her mother in terms of cooking)(includes recipe)

We used to do battle in the kitchen. Now, my mother is my culinary muse. And yet I wonder. Does she have to put the giblets and broth in threedifferent pots?

You know, there's a much better knife to cut that with," she'd tell me. "This is fine, Mom," I'd say, gritting my teeth reducing an innocent tomato to pulp. Or, as my eyes stung from dicing onions, she'd suggest, "It might be easier if you put that in the Cuisinart." "I'm okay," I'd snap, continuing to blink and chop, slicing a fingernail as I went. She wanted me to do it her way, the right way, the best way. I, of course, wanted to do it my way--not necessarily because it was the right or the best way, but ...

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