Family Dinners: The Original Reality Television
So many of my memories seem to revolve around the dinner table. Beginning with my childhood in Queens, New York, growing up in a second-generation Greek family, I have warm memories of dinners with my family. I may be unusual in this respect, but I can recall vividly so many of those nights. There are three elements to those memories: the people around the table, the conversations, and finally, the food. For many years my grandmother spent the better part of the day preparing the dinner that my mother, father, brother and I would mostly devour (admittedly, on some occasions, agonize over...
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