Tag: eat seasonal

  • Cutting This Tomato Hurts My Soul

    Cutting This Tomato Hurts My Soul

    It’s January. I shouldn’t be cutting a tomato. I shouldn’t be cutting a cucumber. I shouldn’t be cutting raspberries or mangoes. I shouldn’t even be cutting asparagus. But here I am. For the past year, I have suppressed my emotional pain when using out-of-season produce. I justified it because I was in culinary school. They…

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  • Children of the corn

    Children of the corn

    Despite being panned by Siskel and Ebert in 1984 when this Stephen King-adapted movie was released, I was surprised to learn that “Children of the Corn” made more than $14M (on a budget of $800k), and there were seven, yes seven, sequels! The original movie is terrifically awful, but more recently the title makes me…

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  • Fierce Jersey Pride

    Fierce Jersey Pride

    This is something I’ve been thinking about writing for ten years. I don’t give a fuck about messing or not messing with Texas. I’d be ok if you went ahead and fenced up your whole state. New Hampshire can live free or die – not sure if I care. Virginia, you’re great, lived there for…

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  • The Tyranny of Bacon

    The Tyranny of Bacon

    I recall an old woman in the Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl series remarking how the dirt and sand got into everything. You’d keep sweeping and sweeping and sweeping, and cleaning and cleaning and cleaning, but it was all in vain. The dirt got into everything. It was in your hair, in your clothes after you…

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