"Then I'll have tp try that," Nell said with a smile. She scooped up the vegetables Masumi had chopped and added them to one of the other pots to saute.

"I ain't - haven't - really ever had the money to eat at any restaurant type place," she admitted. "I mostly don't ever have more than a few dollars to rub together and those have to go for gas for John's old truck to get me into town to sell my vegetables and teas and such."