America’s Great Debate: Pie or Cake?
In the past two years, our nation has become increasingly polarized. We’ve become a divided nation, with people firmly rooted in one camp or the other. There appears to be no end in sight to […]
Tag: food
Ugly Americans First Meal in Paris
On the bus in London and the Eurostar to France, our tour guide coached us. “Speak French. They like to hear their language, and will respect you if you try it. Remember, eating at a […]
Another Super Bowl Sunday
As the big game approaches, what do you look forward to most as a fan? 1. Your team winning (subliminal message: Eagles, Eagles, Eagles, sorry Pats fans) 2. A good […]
Feast a burden
Overeating makes no sense to me. Unless there’s competition involved. My younger brother and I used to try to out-eat one another at buffets and Thanksgiving feasts, and we’d eat so much we’d make ourselves […]
Surprised by a Diary
A recent fall nesting impulse found me mining beef stew recipes and sifting through an old Victorian secretary that sat in my living room. The secretary, chock-full of my mother’s personal correspondence, had stood undisturbed […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Jobs II
Again, I extend my apologies to Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish for stealing eight out of nine words from the title of that famous short story. It started out as a story called “Beginners” by […]
MORE Family History!
It is important to know our roots, to understand how we became the people we are. Compared to my ancestors, I’m normal. Popular belief holds that spaghetti was discovered by Marco Polo during his travels […]
Hunting Mushrooms
I went out hunting mushrooms, a spore-t even I could succeed at. Kidding–I just stumbled across them by happy accident. (Literally stumbled across them, in one case.) I hate regular mushrooms. They taste like a […]
Being Italian means eating tomatoes and loving it
I’ve known this for years about my son, who’s now 13, but the other day something hit me, and I didn’t like it. I had to bring it up. Me: You’re my kid. You’re Italian. […]
When Life Hands You Bananas, Make Popsicles
Consider the following: A. I like bananas. B. I don’t like them well enough to eat 3 or 4 of them each day. C. I am a single person, living alone. D. The online shopping […]