A Home Cook's Journal of Tastes & Morsels
Thoughts that I remember occurring to me as a kid in a cafeteria: “I wonder if So and So would let me eat the cheese off of her pizza.” Gross. “My bangs are getting long, but are they too long?” Let them grow out. “I am emotionally uncomfortable around people, so I will playfully punch…
I wrote another post for this and then I deleted it. It was about nothing, which wasn’t what I wanted to say. I have been known to get a little weird this time of year, anyway. It has been nearly half my life that I have been weird this time of year. Thirteen years. And…
I have been tattooed four times in the same place. It is a sensitive place, a place where the skin is too soft, where it would hurt to be pinched, where the pain refers to other places. I realized this time around, as my White Tulip finally evolved into its greatest self, that there was…
You can learn a lot about a person from their taste in banana bread. There’s a certain nostalgia attached to this American staple; our pasts are marked by memories of the iconic quick bread. Some grew up baking it with grandparents. Others recall wafts of toasting walnuts or other creative additions. There are favorite bakeries…
Something magical happened to me recently. I woke up to a text message from a friend of mine in Minneapolis with a general level of urgency: “Can we please Skype when you have a chance?” Those of you who know me well know that-though I am a morning person in comparison to most-there is a…
A recent day: I awake at 4:30am to the repetitive BEEP of my alarm (frankly, the only sound that does not irk the paralyzing fear of waking up in the middle of the night into negative associations). Given that I set out my things the night before, I do the bare minimum of preparations to…
I once had a professor tell me that everyone’s lives are governed by the Law of Least Effort. It’s an interesting thought, really; basically, he explained, we are all most inclined to do the things that seem to deplete us of the least of our resources. In many cases, this means we take the easy…
