Sublime

‘Give me a sun, I care not how hot,’ wrote the poet Byron when he visited Istanbul in 1813, ‘and sherbet, I care not how cool, and my Heaven is as easily made as your Persian’s.’

Here’s Amelia’s cheesecake recipe; she always said she got it from the back of the Philadelphia cream cheese package. Make a nice graham cracker crust and pack it into a 9-inch pie pan. Then mix 12 ounces cream cheese with 4 well-beaten eggs, 1 cup sugar and a teaspoon vanilla. Pour into the pie shell and bake 45 minutes at 350°. Remove and cool 15

PORTUGUESE SPONGE CAKE

—Charlotte Clingstone presented a kind of ideal. She was bohemian but accomplished. Worldly but rooted.