Part 0: The Amuse-Bouche
“Mondel bread, with my grandma. When we’d go visit Florida, she’d make it for us, so it reminds me of being in her apartment.”
“My family has a lot of shtick about food. It’s all about food. It’s such a Jewish mother stereotype, it’s so true, the whole day is around food. Nobody ever stops asking you what you want to eat.”
“When I was little, I really liked blintzes. Also, I used to love salad dressing, and my grandma made homemade salad dressing, and she would take the little gravy kind of pourer and fill it up with salad dressing just for me, and I would drink it.”
“There’s a rumor in my family that my first word was bagel” The interviewee sent a quick text to his mom. “Yes it was bagel, and Da-Da was next. She wrote ‘born for carbs.'”
“Cheesy potatoes at my grandmother’s potluck wake, yeah. Everyone in my family asked the church lady who cooked them for her recipe. We make them every year now for Christmas.”
“When my parents wanted to make my brother and me really happy, they’d take us to Pizza Hut.”
“I just eat the nearest food I can find.”
“It’s a very quintessentially shareable meal.”
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