Delicious! (2014)
“SAL GRUMBLED THE SECOND TIME I gave a customer the wrong cheese. “Your head’s somewhere else.” Brow furrowed, he took my hand and led me into the back kitchen. “What’s going on?”
“I was thinking about the war.”
“Vietnam? Korea?”
“No, the big one. World War Two. Do you know what it was like during rationing?”
“Pop used to talk about how hard it had been. They couldn’t get anything from Europe after the shipping lanes closed. Cheese wasn’t rationed, but the only products they could get were made in America. Why do you ask?”
I’d been trying to imagine what it was like to live with the constant fear of death. The men you loved could die at any minute; they might, in fact, already be dead. How did Lulu bear that knowledge? How did anyone?
I was telling Sal about the letters when Rosalie came charging into the back kitchen. “Theresa and I could use a little help out there,” she said, tugging at my sleeve. “It’s Sunday.”
I looked at my watch: almost two o’clock, which was when Mr.
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