Summary

In Chapter 3, “French Fries,” Dorothy was born to be a food critic. She admits that men made her work possible. “In ‘90s New York,” one had to know the right people to get ahead (29). Dorothy met “Manhattan playboy Andrew Gotien” at Beignet (30). They went home together. In the morning, he said he wanted her “to be the food critic” for his new magazine Noir (30).

Dorothy's love for food began with her mother. She had a big “Connecticut garden” she tended faithfully (31). Her father worked constantly, so her mother “ruled [the] home with a floured fist” (31). Although her life with her parents and siblings seemed idyllic, their one secret was Dorothy.

Since coming to Bedford Hills, Dorothy has learned the true meaning of privation. She longs for the foods of her past.

At home, Dorothy ate her “mother’s...