I like your grandmother. Glad she wasn't my mother-in-law, though. But can you imagine asking someone to leave you something in your will? The audacity! Although I did ask my grandmother to leave me her recipe for red beans and rice - that was after she refused to give it to me, telling me that she might have to open up her restaurant again, and it was her secret. Well, I didn't initiate the conversation, when she was quite old, she showed me her rings, and asked me to pick one for her to leave me in her will. I told her I didn't want to pick one, for her to pick the one she wanted me to have, but I wanted her to leave me her recipe for red beans and rice. She promised she would, and I was bitterly disappointed that she didn't.
After mulling it over in my mind for a few decades, I've come to the conclusion that she didn't make them, her black cook did. And she was too proud to admit it. She was funny that way. She went out of her way to swear up and down that she never dyed her hair, not that anyone ever asked her. But she had boxes of hair dye in her bathroom cabinet. |
