There were tuna salad sandwiches scarfed down on the 30 block walk to the Met and the long trek down to the Flat Iron area to get pastry-wrapped Kosher hot dogs and knishes.

I don’t remember much except that the waiter was intimidating and we had Grand Marnier Chocolate Souffle for dessert. In the thirty years we were friends, many of our visits together centered around food.

You are not surprised, are you? This is the man who brought us In the Night Kitchen with its warm cake and cool milk and remember “mix it once, mix it twice, mix that Chicken Soup With Rice? And of course, after the rumpus and the roars and the sailing across a day and weeks, what does Max come home to in Where The Wild Things Are but his supper, waiting for him, still hot! Maurice firmly believed that food = love. Jwould have been Maurice Sendak’s 85th birthday, so let’s talk about food because Maurice loved food with a deep and abiding love. I asked his dear friend Toni, who knew him so very well, if she would share some of her delicious memories with us. So much as already been said about Maurice that I will only add that in addition to creating some of the most brilliant books the world has ever seen, he made it impossible for me to ever have a bowl of chicken soup with rice and not think about him and smile.Īs you may know, we lost him just about a year ago, and it’s still hard for me to believe he’s not out there, sitting at his kitchen table with his faithful German Shepherd at his feet. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.“Sprinkle once, sprinkle twice, sprinkle chicken soup with rice”….read the wonderful book by Maurice Sendak and then make this easy recipe for chicken soup with rice!Īmong the many amazing people I have been lucky enough to know, two of the most amazing are my friend Toni Markiet, and the extraordinary Maurice Sendak. In 2003, Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an annual international prize for children’s literature established by the Swedish government.

In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, in 1983 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, and in 1996 he received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Nutshell Library. Maurice Sendak’s children’s books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages.

Chicken soup with rice board book