"The Floral Apron", talks about the difference between two generations that have grown apart. Marilyn Chin had wrote about a women cooking an old dish that the new generation doesn't know about. The second paragraph was about the women who is cooking some squids for a meal. The process was described as "she wiped her hand on the apron, pierced the blade into the first. There was no resistance, no blood, only cartilage, soft as a child's nose. A last iota of ink made us wince." The newer generation does not know what she was doing and was a little shock about the brutality of the process. They did not understand that she was just cooking and thought that it was weird for her to be cutting the squid up into pieces. The last paragraph describes