Around and About with Richard McCarthy: Farewell to Mom’s Home Cooking: When a community loses an institution

Around and About with Richard McCarthy: Farewell to Mom’s Home Cooking: When a community loses an institution

When I was on vacation a little while back, I read in the local newspaper that a restaurant named Mom’s Home Cooking was closing its doors for good after a quarter-century of operation. The reason the article gave for its closing was that the owners, a married couple who were both 82 years old, had aged-out of the demanding daily energies required to keep it operating.