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Breaking the Food Chain
Recipes? No Thanks!
I once received an email that contained a simple request. Write down my favorite recipe, and email it to the person at the top of the list. Then delete that person’s name, add my own email address to the bottom of the list, and send the resulting request-for-recipes to 25 friends.
Soon, promised the letter, I’d get 36 recipes!
There was just one problem. I never cook. I hate cooking. I’m a take-out kind of gal. Yes, I can throw together an amazing salad. But recipes? I hadn’t a single one.
Nor did I want any. Thirty-six recipes turning up in my inbox? Priceless? No, Useless.
Normally I’d just delete the email and go about my business. But I couldn’t. The person who’d sent it to me was my beloved daughter-in-law. For Amy, I’m willing to move out of my comfort zone.
Of course, I did try to weasel out of it first.
“You know I don’t cook,“ I emailed her. “I haven’t got any recipes.”
“False!” she replied, reminding me that once, years ago, I’d whipped up a terrific batch of matzoh brei for her and my son.
Busted! How do you turn down a DIL who not only includes you in an email that goes out to “friends” but knows you well enough to remember the one and only meal you’ve…
