Here is the place where home economics gone awry can be deadly. Using a sponge, which often harbors germs and microbes like E. coli and salmonella, is tantamount to perpetrating a homicide. According to Mendelson something similar happens in the neglected kitchen. And the spiritual counterpart to this chilling state of affairs is the chametz-laden kitchen during Passover. After flipping through 884 pages of Mendelson's meticulously researched, extremely detailed tome, I think I have some idea of how she would feel about my mother's empty plate.
Housework is basic yet hard work.
It's the stuff of backstage maneuverings. But there's a romance to it that my mother never fully understood. Besides if Mendelson had been there the day the newspaper reporter came to my mother's kitchen, she surely would have been able to prepare something off the shelves in that kitchen. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any form without permission.