Article: Desperation Dinners: Readers invited to vote for favorite recipe; For 10 years, column has tried to show that dinner doesn't have to be such a chore

"If a box of macaroni and cheese didn't make me feel so guilty, I wouldn't be nearly such a desperate cook." Beverly wrote those words almost exactly 10 years ago to kick off the first-ever Desperation Dinners newspaper column, and the statement is just as true now as it was then.

There was more:

"My stay-at-home mother would never have dreamed of feeding us elbow macaroni in orange pools of radioactive goo.

When Mom's calls to dinner came, we delighted in gathering around a table laden with the results of her hours in the kitchen. The stuff of sociologist's doctoral dissertations happened around her table: We discussed, argued, laughed and secretly fed our liver to the dog. We came to ...

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