When I was perhaps 11 or 12, a friend of my father’s came to visit. My father had just made a big batch of spaghetti sauce, so he served spaghetti and sauce for dinner. I remember being alive with tingling anticipation; my father makes really good spaghetti sauce, and it was always one of my …
Category Archives: Food
I Used To Be That Annoying Vegan
Y’all, I have a confession to make. I think I’ve written here and there about the fact that I used to be vegan, and I’ve gone a little bit into why I chose veganism, and why it’s a choice that I actually would like to make again at some point in the future. What I …
Summer (Fruit) Lovin’
I’m not gonna lie to y’all, I got to feeling mighty sorry for myself after I wrote about my currently tormented relationship with food last month. Food has always been something very important to me, a pretty key part of my life, and it kind of felt like a part of myself was breaking off …
From the Deep
Read the first part of this story, ‘Giorgos and the Octopus,’ if you feel so inclined. The story of Giorgos became common fodder in the kafenia. As people softly clicked their backgammon tiles to and fro and drank ouzo and cried ‘ai gamisou‘ at each other in a good natured way and snacked on mezze, …
Food: A Eulogy
I used to love food. In fact, my love of food was famous. I ate anything and everything that crossed my plate with gusto, and in copious amounts. People used to make running bets on how much food I could eat at a given outing. Restaurant staff filed out of the kitchen to stare in …
Giorgos and the Octopus
Giorgos had a brightly coloured and dangerously dilapidated boat which he took out every morning with the rest of the fishermen. His boat was always the easiest to spot because at some point the entire interior had been painted a livid and rather shocking lime green which caused the boat to glow almost radioactively on …
Parable of the Strawberries
This year, there was a glut of strawberry plants in Florida. It happens sometimes, for a variety of reasons. In this case, a frost ruined the staggered growing season, causing a bunch of plants to produce berries all at once. The market was flooded with fruit. When overproduction like this occurs, the result is usually …
My Candy. Let Me Show You It. (No That Is Not A Euphemism.)
It’s been a…rough few months. Very, very rough. And all this time, I’ve been thinking ‘it is high time for another candy exchange.’ Homechickens, I can’t even tell you how much I needed another candy exchange. Luckily, so did other people. I went to the post office yesterday to wedge out a week’s accumulation of …
What’s For Dinner?
The New York Times recently had a series on rabbits as a source of food. They ran, among other things, an article about community workshops on slaughtering rabbits and a Q&A with a rabbit farmer. And the response in comments was extremely interesting. Tristan (who keeps pet rabbits) and I were talking about the series …
Food and Moral Weight
Michelle, aka the Fat Nutritionist, is an awesome lady. I think you already know that because I am always talking about how awesome she is, but just in case you don’t, she is awesome, and you should be reading her. I’m not just fond of her because she’s a fellow fatty, or because she has …