The Apron Ties that Bind
Three-year-old Fritz Blank with his Oma, Mary Katherina Blank.
Photograph.
Pennsauken, NJ, 1943.
Mary Blank’s Cleaver.
Mary Blank’s cleaver, a retired relic of Chef Fritz’s early cooking days. While his grandmother used the cleaver to dispatch snapping turtles for soup, young Fritz killed chickens with it for family meals.