Serpents in the Cold (2015)
“He hadn’t eaten anything since yesterday, and he sat and watched Claudia at the other end of the kitchen, wearing a starchy white apron over a dress that she had made herself. She chopped some parsley, filled a pot with water and placed it on the stove top, then opened the fridge, peering in, but, as if she had forgotten what she was looking for, closed the door and shuffled back over to the stove and turned on the gas to boil the water.
She was the furthest thing from their mother in the k...itchen, fretful and manic, her hands fluttering about the counter and cabinets like crippled birds attempting flight, and at that moment, he thought that she was more like their father despite having the exterior, the dark southern Italian features, of their mother. And to make it all the more tough on herself, she’d chosen to cook them one of their mother’s favorite dishes, paccheri alla genovese, a classic Neapolitan dish that had many components and took hours to stew.MoreLess
She was the furthest thing from their mother in the k...itchen, fretful and manic, her hands fluttering about the counter and cabinets like crippled birds attempting flight, and at that moment, he thought that she was more like their father despite having the exterior, the dark southern Italian features, of their mother. And to make it all the more tough on herself, she’d chosen to cook them one of their mother’s favorite dishes, paccheri alla genovese, a classic Neapolitan dish that had many components and took hours to stew.MoreLess
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