For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
Mary Schmich
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Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food. -
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! -
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. -
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. -
It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.
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