Category Archives: Food

Two-Thirds of a Box of Matzo

I cut the sugar out 9 months ago. It wasn’t tough. As if I’d had enough, I stopped the nightly treats. And I can’t crow about my will – I didn’t want sweet stuff. I lost 5 pounds, and then … Continue reading

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Transmutation

The mill stone turns and grinds to powder grain the meadows wore a harvest month ago. The cloud condenses drops to send us rain our reservoirs collect and then let flow. There comes a winter-boding Saturday when I combine the … Continue reading

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Baker

Within the leaf, the gas and water take their measure of the vigor of the sun to spark a sweet reaction, as they make the basic sustenance for everyone. The chemistry is almost that profound when I mix flour, milled … Continue reading

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The Alchemist

Inside each leaf, the gas and water take up power from the vigor of the sun to spark a sweet reaction, as they make the basic sustenance for everyone. The chemistry is almost that profound when I mix flour, milled … Continue reading

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Breakfast

The skin is firmly smooth against my touch, the color flushed in orange red or rose. There’s no aroma I detect as such until the flavor’s cut to court my nose. The surface first resists incisive teeth – I’m hungry, … Continue reading

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Bing

At one end of the bridge in her backyard, she sits and eats the cherries picked today and quickly rinsed before they made their hard and swollen, tartly sweet-fleshed, sun-plumped way into her mouth. She stops to look at one: … Continue reading

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May(o)hem

I dislike mayonnaise, but I succumb to it. I can’t come up with a better lube for tuna or egg salad. I used to make my own, when I had a full house and a food processor, but the homemade … Continue reading

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Norange

Andy asked me which came first: orange as the name of the fruit or the color? And then he asked a few more times, so I gathered that he meant it. The fruit. It goes back to at least 2500 … Continue reading

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Avalon

I wondered awhile ago about the word “apple.” I looked it up recently and I have a few comments. It’s as fundamental and basic as we all suspect. The word means itself and may figure in every significant culture. Or … Continue reading

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Pomes Away

Someone told me recently that a pomegranate is really an apple bomb. I think that’s correct. In fact, the dictionary says the pomegranate (punica granatum) comes from the Latin words pomum (apple) and granatus (seeded). We’ve all seen pome before. … Continue reading

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