Article: Looking Back With Recipes And Memories - New York Times

METRO MATTERS does not normally much concern itself with food, unless the subject is hunger or food stamps or the zoning of superstores. But the holiday season produced an appetite for sentiment and nostalgia, especially for a time when one could eat anything with impunity and did not have to think of popcorn as fiber or broccoli as a cruciferous vegetable with cancer-fighting properties. E-mail brings a report from a like-minded friend who concedes that she finds it comforting to think about food and keeps a ''fat recipe book; fat with yesterday's recipes that no one would ever make in the 90's -- beef in beer, bourbon yams, kale soup with linguica sausage and red beans.'' Recipe ...

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