text:  brought this from being a possible epic failure to something resembling a success by the time we were done. It was that spirit. And so that also then brought me to our next-door neighbor, Nicole, who cooked every single day, even though she worked in the fields every day. There was always dinner on the table at 8 o'clock. There was the grocer in town who kind of took me under her wing, the grocer's mother who really almost taught me about life as much as about cooking, but taught me –