A Home Cook's Journal of Tastes & Morsels
UGH OKAY FINE THIS IS PIZZA It is pizza and I am a big, lying liar. I don’t even know how it happened. One night, I was roasting some sweet potatoes after I got home from class. I wrapped them in foil and set them in the oven and then I realized just how long…
God, I don’t even know where to start. It’s my mother’s sixtieth birthday today. Thirty years ago at this time, she was about to pop. In fact, I stayed ten days late. Our birthdays were supposed to be five days apart. Finally, she decided to eat some fried chicken, to which I replied “PEACE!” After…
Sometimes I feel like the woman in Chocolat, traveling when the winds tell her to. Most recently, I keep thinking of the air between the mountains in Asheville. The last time I went was over three years ago. My mother had flown in to meet me in Atlanta on Christmas Day after my shift was…
Y’all. It has been a MONTH. Every recipe I have tried to make lately has not worked out. I have been a disaster! I don’t even know what that’s about. Normally, I am so good at anticipating a recipe. I research and make educated decisions for how to treat the ingredients. Then, I come up…
Sometimes, when you least expect it, it occurs to you that you have believed a thing or two just a little too long. I don’t know when I started swallowing this pill, but it dawned on me this morning that I have been telling myself for a long while that I can settle for less…
At the start of the New Year, I showed up for my first-ever 108 Sun Salutations. Before we began, we were given little cards to write down one word that could be our intention. I wrote the word “blooming.” I don’t know that I realized it then, but I see it now: the process, the…
When I saw his name, I thought to myself, What if he’s my next person. My next thought was, Don’t be silly. Then, Don’t not be silly. Setting his order down before his arrival, I recognized he could be any number of unfitting things, really. It was my first day at my new store since…
