Mother's Day Treats | Leite's Culinaria

David recounts the troubles, frustration, and utter exasperation of learning family recipes from his mother, a true demon in the kitchen. Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. [] [][Devil with a Red Apron on]( posted by David Leite | Tue, May 08 2018, 01:01 AM In Devil with a Red Apron on, David Leite recounts the trouble, frustration, and exasperation of trying to learn his family’s favorite Portuguese recipes from his mother. [Illustration of a woman in a red apron holding a pot of stew] Enter my mother’s kitchen, a domain she’s ruled with benign autocracy for more than 45 years, and all physical laws and culinary edicts cease to exist there. It’s like finding yourself in the loony world of a Warner Bros. cartoon where pain is... 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