Some 79 years ago (Wow, that’s a lot of years. HG remembers that time perfectly. Short term memory gives HG problems now), sturdy 13-year-old HG spent a steamy Rockaway Beach summer lifting, stacking, shoving heavy boxes in the stock room of F.W. Woolworth on busy Beach 116th Street. HG interrupted labor with a meal at the Woolworth lunch counter. Each day, HG ate fish cakes accompanied by spaghetti in tomato sauce. Cost: 15 cents. (Might be overstating the price. Likely cost a dime). Probably an awful meal by today’s standard but the famished youngster loved it. These days, HG sups on BSK’s very superior fish cakes (Supermarket or frozen fish cakes are inferior and often inedible). BSK follows the recipe of gifted daughter, Lesley R.(The right ratio of cod, potatoes, herbs and Panko). Happy HG joyfully ate them last night while watching a glorious sunset at HG/BSK’s oceanfront home on green, peaceful, democratic Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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