$30 for food supplies and about $15 for the innumerable minor household needs: from orange squeezer to liquid soap to potholders 9/5/57

Thinking about you while staring at my butter dish. Franz Kafka, 1916.

Who do you think you are? A Communion wafer? Blubbery Mary? I shall take no bite of your body 1962

Thank God I get tired and can sleep; if that is so, all is possible. And I like to eat. 1956

She watched Cicely start to pour out the lemonade. 1959

squatting in the blazing noon sun setting strawberry runners and wishing for water 1954

armed only with stale toll house cookies 1954

Ted digs all morning and plans immense vegetable gardens in his dreams. 9/11/61

now, in the bathroom, kneeling on the floor, thinking of fat, of the salt pork & fatty marrow larding the thick soup & retching 9/12/57

I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies, Hanging their bluegreen bellies and their wing panes in a Chinese screen. The honey-feast of the berries has stunned them; they believe in heaven. One more hook, and the berries and bushes end. 1961

There were boys all of a sudden, and I’ve forgotten what it was like to not have some guy in the kitchen eating mother’s cookies and discussing the World Series with my brother. 1950

Thanks for the pound cake recipe. I’ll use it soon. I love new recipes. 9/15/61

Honey oozing out of the comb, steaming coffee on the hot-plate. Boiled eggs and butter. 9/16/59

“This dough bread is delicious,” said Esther, thinking to compliment her. “Did you make it?” “Oh, no, Mr. Ockenden makes that.” Mr. Ockenden was the town baker. “There’s a loaf over, though. If you like, you could buy it afterwards.” 1962

I got right to work after coffee. 9/18/58

coffee and passionate hard talk 1954

four wickered green chianti bottles 9/20/54

the wonderful wonderful food of Mrs. Coyne 9/21/62

An Irish woman cooked, got me to eat 2 eggs & half a loaf of her brown bread & her cows’ milk & hand churned butter for breakfast. 9/22/62

He stayed for coffee, & the percolator made an excellent brew which I served with date nut bars. 9/23/57