My mother makes corned beef every year for Saint Patrick’s Day. She puts big hunks of it in the slow cooker and simmers it all day long with fat chops of potatoes, carrots, and green cabbage. And every year (every single year), she serves all that up with drop biscuits, tinted bright green with food […]
When we lived in our little brown house on Monticello Drive, we had a family vegetable garden. I didn’t realize it then, but now I know that it was amazing. I suppose it was your standard spread, but everything grew big and in abundance: buckets of round, ruby-red cherry tomatoes, zucchini the size of […]
Despite growing up in a small place, I think I’ve always had an urban sensibility. The bustle and verve of city life rosies my cheeks — it vivifies! it uplifts! (It makes me use verbs like “vivify” and “uplift.”) In the city, the mundane is the urbane: I love to keep the pace of the […]
Cabbage. Oh, cabbage. What can I say about it, really? It’s a boring food. A not-looking-forward-to-it food. A who-brought-that-girl-to-the-party? food. Am I right? “Absolutely,” you say.
Leaf Parade. 