Starve a fever, feed a cold. So goes the conventional wisdom, but what's on the menu for a wounded heart?
Post-funeral meal rituals vary wildly – not just from pole to pole and faith to faith, but from mourner to mourner. Some families decamp to a restaurant, too overwhelmed to tidy a house or light a stove. Some can barely wend their way through their kitchen for all the foil-covered dishes borne over by neighbors doing what they can to fill the suddenly hollow space in a once-full home.
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