Brighton Beach Sells This Salad by the Pound, but Mom Still Makes It From Scratch

Good food is worth a thousand words—sometimes more. In My Family Recipe, writers share the stories of dishes that are meaningful to them and their loved ones.

We’d gotten off the plane at JFK just a few hours prior. After a short drive in my uncle’s…

Good food is worth a thousand words—sometimes more. In My Family Recipe, writers share the stories of dishes that are meaningful to them and their loved ones.


We’d gotten off the plane at JFK just a few hours prior. After a short drive in my uncle’s Honda Civic, we arrived in South Brooklyn. The street was lined with brown-brick buildings, and my aunt pointed up at one of them.

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