"After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."

― Lady Caroline Pontrefact in Oscar Wilde's "A Woman of No Importance."It's a play in which one of the characters pledges love and support to a woman who represents the mother she never had. A number of the stories here at Eat, Darling, Eat reflect a surrogate mother, a stepmother, an "other mother," someone filling the role of a birth mother who is absent, either literally or emotionally.