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Write about a character whose love language is making food for others.

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“Food is Life” by Chris Charleston

Submitted to Contest #162

TW: It's creepy and a bit different. There are brief moments of implied violence. Cosmic Horror throuout.Greetings and good tidings to all my fellow humans out there! Thank you so much for visiting my food blog: Food for Living: Food is Love, food is life!When I started this food blog years and years and years ago, I really didn’t know much about the kitchen. My parents were clueless cooks when I was growing up. Our two most used cooking tools were the freezer and the microwave, so I basically had to learn food lesson one when I started my c...

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“Da Best Cook Roun’ da Whol’ County” by Arianna Peoples

Submitted to Contest #162

(The Best Cook Around the Whole County)TW: Description of blood and brief physical violence-Mama always loved how the mixtures of spices and herbs mingled in her nose as she cooked dinner for all seven of us in the family. Mama always let me sit on the counter next to her while she prepped the vegetables and fruits for our school lunch boxes. I would watch her hands slice, chop, mince, squeeze, and stir, day in and day out. The callouses she adorned looked rough and bumpy. The blisters she would develop were fleshy and bubbly. I loved her no...

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“Shepherd's Diner” by Elise Lockwood

Submitted to Contest #162

Patsy Hayes remembered when it first happened, she was sure of it, down to the specific date and time. She was getting older and increasingly forgetful, but the others had to concede that she was right on this point. The deliveries had begun late last winter, just as the bitter nights were lengthening, giving way to sunny mornings that drew tender, green shoots from the soil. “It was March 3rd, I know it was,” she said, distinctly remembering that it was her niece’s half-birthday. “First thing I saw when I went outside to do my morning water...

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“Mama's Mix” by Sway Dodson

Submitted to Contest #162

A pinch of salt, a dash of pepper. Add more milk. Stir until it thickens. Most people, I’d guess, can say nice things about their mother. She’s beautiful, she’s funny, she makes the best chicken pot pie. Well, in our house, we don’t eat chicken pot pie, and the extravagant things we say about our mother are actually true. My mother is the strongest person I know, and I don’t say that because you’re supposed to say nice things about your mother, I say that because she has been through the deepest pits of hell and climbed her way back...

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“This is Good” by Amanda Leach-Beeching

Submitted to Contest #162

Trigger Warning; mention of substance abuse and physical violence Now, you’re going to want to baste as often as you can. You may feel glued to your oven, but this is more than a Thanksgiving Turkey. This is love, pure and simple. It wasn’t thanksgiving. Not in a November-sense. It was a day for giving thanks, truly, and the growing feast was evidence enough of that. Beverly basted, running her hands lovingly over the family recipe as though she hadn’t memorized it for two decades already. Her thoughts drifted with a lazy smile back to ...

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“A Visit from Julia” by Jennifer Brownstone

Submitted to Contest #162

It was a bleak morning in March. Dark and gloomy. A nor’easter was skirting up the coast – typical for a beach town at that time of year when it’s not quite spring, or not quite anything for that matter – the sidewalks rolled up for the winter and one bar in town open for those on unemployment to commiserate together. And it was a Tuesday. I was sitting at my desk on the third floor of the building where the town’s newspaper had published its weekly for over 150 years. It was a dusty old building w...

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“The Nest is Empty ” by Michael Abreo

Submitted to Contest #162

Naomi Matisse, born in New Hope, Pennsylvania on 27th March 2002, was born a culinary prodigy. She began helping her mother in the kitchen at age 4, standing on a small stool so she could stand tall enough to stir the pot of spaghetti under the protective supervision of her mother, Dorothy. By 6, she was already chopping up ingredients and had begun making spaghetti sauce from scratch, using recipes found on the internet. The age of ten saw her working more with her father, Arthur, as he changed jobs and was home more often. They began ind...

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