My Father: The Eater, the Trickster King

A man of many appetites gets a diagnosis that demands he suppress them

Photo by Matiinu Ramadhan on Unsplash

The family myth goes like this: 10 years ago, my aunt asks my father for the recipe to his famous red-braised pork. He sends her home with written instructions, but the results are not quite right. A year later, she asks again, and again he gives her instructions, exactly the…