Felix Godward (Felix Empananadas) on labor Day

Felix Godward and Boti Visuals

There’s something about shepherd’s pie that always brings me back to my grandmother, Doris Godward . She had this way of cooking that was quiet, deliberate, and honest. Her family had come from England generations ago — railroad workers who settled in Argentina. By the time I was growing up there, the dish had already crossed three generations of our family, morphing a little with each one. Doris taught English at San Andreas and cooked the same way she taught — patiently, with small...