06/21/2026
I’m sharing something a little different here today. It’s an excerpt from really the first piece of food writing I ever published, which was placed in the Washington Post. I remember writing and writing and writing over the course of a long period of time after my father passed away. Many good things came from it, including editing an essay that launched my pathway to storytelling and food. My deep desire was, and has always been and always will be, about exploring the meaning behind what goes on in the kitchen and at the table. Our social media can trick us into moving too quickly and glossing over the surfaces of things and sometimes that’s OK. But more often, it’s so good for us to go a little deeper and feel what there is to feel. And ultimately, to grow. Even these excerpts do not capture the depth of what I was exploring in the essay that I wrote, which won some special awards and I credit that to our shared desire to go deeper. I hope you read the whole thing. You can find it on my website, or below.
“Some of you say, ‘Joy is greater thar sorrow,’ and others say, ‘Nay, sorrow is the greater.’ But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” –Kahlil Gibran
https://maureenabood.com/lebanese-hushwe-and-from-the-kitchen-a-family-farewell-for-my-father/
