Delia Ephron on How Grief, Cancer and Late in Life Love Inspired Her Real-Life Broadway Rom-Traum ‘Left on Tenth’

Delia Ephron invented a term — discardia — for indulging without guilt at New York City’s too-many tempting eateries.

“It’s a game you play with yourself. You can buy anything you want to eat, but then you have to throw it away halfway through,” she says over a cappuccino and a slice of almond cake at a Greenwich Village hotel. “And that’s how I have managed the bakeries.”

Ephron, the 80-year-old author and co-writer of “You’ve Got Mail,” adores the Big Apple, where she was born and spent most of her adult life. It’s also a place on which she and her late sister Nora Ephron — the

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