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Dear Reader,
Gently lay a piece of lunch meat on a slice of bread, add potato chips on top of the lunch meat, put another piece of bread on top of the potato chips and...
...Smash! It's been my favorite way to make a sandwich since I was a kid.
Enjoy today's tasty Honorable Mention Column from this year's Write a Dear Reader Contest, written by Chanda Veno.
Congratulations!
It was a sandwich. Plain and simple. Three ingredients. But to me it was so much more.
In the hot, humid summers, growing up, I would spend a few weeks with my grandparents. For lunch every day, my grandmother would whip together the absolute best cheese sandwich. It was merely one slab of extra sharp cheddar cheese slathered with real sweet cream butter between two hunks of bakery fresh Italian bread. And always served with a tall, sweating glass of Southern tea so sweet it would rattle my fillings.
Every day, without fail, this was my lunch and I would devour every morsel. When the time would come to return home, my grandmother would pack me the brick of cheese, butter and a loaf of made-that-very-day Italian bread. Even with all the supplies to make my favorite sandwich, I never could reproduce it. My homemade sandwiches never did taste like Nan's.
The magic was not in the ingredients themselves, but in the maker. Cheese is just cheese. Butter only butter. Bread but risen dough. She did more than just coat the bread with butter and a slice of cheese, she poured her heart, soul and love into my lunch. And that is something that can never be replicated.
--Chanda Veno
Honorable Mention, 2015 Write a Dear Reader Contest
* Congratulations to the winners of A Talent For Trickery by Guest Author Alissa Johnson: Linda F., Pam B., and Gay M.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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* This month's Penguin Classics book is RAVELSTEIN by Saul Bellow. Start reading now and enter to win a Penguin tote bag: http://www.supportlibrary.com/bc/v.cfm?L=drclassqqxqQ1AFE3FA7574&c=CLASSICS
AUTHORBUZZ: ALL I WANT by Jill Shalvis
In my new title, both an Amazon and iBooks 'Book of the Month,' we meet feisty pilot Zoe Stone and badass federal agent Parker James--a hero who also rescues kittens. Add in a little suspense, a lot of sexy hot times, and a few laughs to boot and you get in Publisher's Weekly words: "incendiary attraction and delightful witty, sexy banter."
Go to: http://authorbuzz.com/dearreader click on ALL I WANT to find out more about the book and the author, Jill Shalvis. Send her an email, she'd love to hear from you.
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