Forty-three children have gone missing in Alabama and never been found. Forty-three children who didn’t sleep in their own beds last night or didn’t go to their usual classrooms this morning, or hang out with their friends, or report to their jobs, or have families of their own, as far as anyone
Alex Witchel interview with Mimi Sheraton, food journalist, author and cook, at her Greenwich Village home; photo; former New York Times restaurant critic, now 78, discusses New York childhood and career in her 14th book, memoir Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life, as well as current projects, including search for lost dishes from city's bygone French bistros (M)
'I am very proud of my daughter and all the other top achievers. It was fabulous seeing a group of pupils from various parts of the country who had made it to the top. They have made their parents proud,' a mother of one of the top matriculants has said.