Baked eggs with salsa verde. Photo by Patricia Tracey.
A rum Negroni, otherwise called a Man About Town. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
The official cover of The Book of Schmaltz.
Schmaltz, chicken fat rendered with onion, an initial "cover" photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
So here's the kind of Mom my wife and collaborator, Donna, is. On Saturday, at 5:30 she had just showered and was getting ready for a 6:30 party when her 17-year-old daughter asks if she, Donna, can take her to get that smart phone upgrade as hers, daughter's, is broken. The teenaged daughter is not the most appreciative member of homo sapiens, remember, and Donna would not be unreasonable to say "I'm not dressed and we're going out soon; this can wait till tomorrow," but instead, she says, "Sure, hon, but we have to hurry."
Here's the kind of wife Donna is. For Mother's Day a few years ago, I bought her a really good wheelbarrow. She was ecstatic, and made googly eyes at me. I felt so lucky. A wheelbarrow!
Mom's Day is important. If your wife is happy and makes you ...
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