What I Eat
‘As Michael’s mother, I’m often asked, “What do you eat?”’
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4 min readMay 14, 2019
My father was born in Russia, and he often shared stories with me about helping his mother in her small garden in the shtetl when he was a child. Later, after coming to America, he peddled fruits and vegetables from a horse and wagon in Hempstead, Long Island.