My mother-in-law taught me the recipe for spinach rice 15 years ago, when my husband and I were still in the somewhat-newlywed stage. At the time, I worked as a fifth-grade teacher, and we lived ...

To hear the cook, writer and teacher Sonoko Sakai tell it, “1955 is the year my mother was liberated.” Several things happened that year: Sakai was born, but more liberating still for her mother?

I didn’t even know you could cook rice on a stovetop until I saw my in-laws and their Uncle Ben’s. “Ma fan,” as my mother would say. Too much bother.

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But when his grandmother passed away, Johnson says his working mother started cooking parboiled rice from a box because it took only 10 minutes. “Those were probably my worst memories of rice ...

And, for my mother, this inclusion – making room in the recipe – would be reflected in her food as well. My mother taught herself to cook after arriving, as a new mother-bride, stateside.

My mother tongue is not my dad’s, ... Outside of my grandma’s kitchen and away from my dad’s cooking, dishes as common as rice and beans stumped me, never tasting like they did in my memory.

The cooking and grocery shopping fell to me and my little sister. Each week she'd give us $100 cash and lie comatose in the car while the two of us pushed a cart around the store, buying whatever ...

For weeks, I dreaded this moment, the leave-taking. But it came and went, as things do. I packed the car, hugged my mom goodbye and drove off, promising to visit again in a few months.