I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French.

The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

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