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Baltimore Dining ExaminerDining Dish (a.k.a, Dara Bunjon) is founder of Dara Does It, which caters to the food industry everything from PR to food styling to cooking instructions, and more. Enjoy her rants, raves, recipes and food adventures, and let her know yours!
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Food Memories from My Yout
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by Dining Dish, Baltimore Dining Examiner
Today I was trying to remember back to my childhood to any food memories. I know the story my mother talked about was that my sister and I were picky eaters. We were both very scrawny, tiny children and my mother being a good Jewish mother felt guilty that we weren't robust looking. I think she felt her friends thought she was starving us.
She bribed both of us with $10 if we could gain 10 pounds in a year. Okay, it was a long time ago and that 10 spot is equivalent to $100 by today's standards. I recollect trying hard to gain but I just couldn't do it. I could win the challenge today in about 3 days.
My mother's frustration was that there was little that I liked and my goodness if I said I liked something, I got it everyday for lunch....EVERYDAY...until I would throw a tantrum. The sliced turkey meat sandwiches on rye with a sprinkling of salt sticks in my mind. The lunch box would come home still in tack with the morning's packed sandwich. Oh, mother would be so aggravated and upset. It was my sister who told me to throw away the sandwich (she was the rocket genius between the two of us). I remember swapping with another student the turkey sandwich for a meatloaf sandwich on white bread with ketchup. It was really good but I hesitated telling my mother because, you guessed it, it would be a meatloaf sandwich everyday.
Let me not forget breakfast every morning, of course it was the same thing every morning, a soft boiled egg and a glass of chocolate milk---talk about nausea to kick off your day. To this day I can't watch Rocky Balboa swallow the raw eggs in Rocky and not have a feeling I'm going to toss. Chocolate milk was the only way to get milk down me, I couldn't handle white milk and to this day I don't drink white milk. I do use it with cereal if there is sugar in it (sugar substitute at this age.) The weekends had some diversity: pancakes, birds-in-the-nest and Sunday's selection of smoked fish, bagels, cream cheese and lox.
Don't be shy, let me know about your personal recollections of food during your youth (or as Joe Pesci said in My Cousin Vinny, " Yout")
Topics: Reminiscences
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