Book Board Chat

We seldom ate out either, even though I grew up in the suburbs of Long Island and there were loads of restaurants. My mother was a very picky eater and there were many foods I never had until I was an adult, like mushrooms, and a lot of other vegetables. Sometimes my father would take my brother and I out for Chinese food on the rare occasion my mother was out at dinner time, she would not eat Chinese food. Although she was allergic to seafood, we had fish and clams that my father caught.