Christmas moves in, and as if determined to fill all hearts with joy the bells ring louder.

Trees grow bare except the oaks; appetites grow heartier except with anemic pale-livered souls.

A California food processor with a luxurious turn of mind is using the oil of the avocado to produce a French dressing.

Boom days have come to New York's smorgasbord mecca—that old fashioned Swedish delicatessen of Nyborg and Nelson.

A few blocks to the south and a few doors off the Avenue is located one of the most famous restaurants in New York.

When dying, he said, “Dieu me pardonnera, c'est Son metier,” which Mama in her inexpensive French translated as, “Of course God will forgive me … that's His business.”...

After Mama and all the rest of us got back from Europe, everyone sat around waiting for the war to end in six months.

The first journal I ever kept was of the trip to Europe with Mama.