Recipes Aloud

When my father in law had a stroke my husband and I visited him in the hospital. After a few minutes I started to feel dizzy as I stood leaning against the wall. A nurse walked in the room and spotted my blanching and she immediately locked her arm in mine and cheerfully escorted me outside into the fresh air. There I sat in the back seat of our car in the hospital parking lot with all of our silver Subaru station wagon doors wide open. It was a cold sunny February day and I was comforted by reading Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook aloud which I just happened to have with me. I recited the recipe for rugelach over and over as a comfort to me and it brought me back. Moral of the story; always carry a cookbook in your glove compartment. It may help bring you back.