“Everything’s going to be very calming and old-fashioned tonight,” Mabel said to Kat, her muscles at work making her arms look less stringy and aged. “All our nerves are frayed, and old-fashioned is soothing.” As part of her attempt to make May more comfortable than the April dinner had been, Mabel explained all the food to Kat in vast detail. “April was wet — now it’s beginning to get cold at night. We need comfort food. Things are unhappy and we know winter is coming. The dark nights are starting to scare us.”
“So we eat comfort food,” said Kat, slowly. “That makes sense. What is comfort food, though? I always think of hot chips as comfort food.”
“It’s gourmet comfort food, by modern standards, but everything tonight my grandmother taught me. I may have modified it a little,” she warne
