Comfort eating

摘要

Warm-hearted recollections of Jewish childhoods in New York are a rich literary genre. Once they were acted out in Brooklyn or on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where the kids played Softball among the tenements. As the community bettered itself, the backgrounds and pastimes moved upmarket. Patricia Volk grew up first in an apartment on Riverside Drive, then in a large house on Long Island She befriended the family's black maid and had riding lessons. Every year she at-tended extended family dinners at the Ho tel New Yorker where relatives passed on the essential skills of choosing expensive baubles. (Never buy more than two pieces of matching jewellery. "Two is elegant, Patty. Three is tasteless.")