“Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb, Real sky blue, and heavy, and ready to drum In the cavernous pail of the first one to come!” –Blueberries by Robert Frost Blueberries are one of the greatest foods ever. They’re so forgiving; toss them into a muffin, a cake, a pancake, a pie, and they bubble and ooze into all the other flavors, making everything taste better. Maybe we should all try to be more like the humble blueberry, […]
We haven’t had a Tex-Mex meal for a while, and it was starting to create a deep, dark hole in my psyche. There’s something so joyous about Mexican food – the spices, the colors, the textures – where would we be without it? The chocolate and cinnamon combination commonly found south of the border is the perfect marriage of two singular flavors, yet when they’re combined, the whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts. The cinnamon smooths out […]
One late afternoon my daughter and I fell into a little café in Walton Street in London, looking for a cup of tea and something sweet to give us the energy to push on through one of our “lists of things we have to do while we’re here.” There’s something about travel that gets the adrenaline humming – maybe it’s knowing you might never come this way again, so you don’t want to miss a thing. We were already falling […]
When I was a kid, we had a big strawberry patch that needed to be picked clean every June, beginning just as school was out for the summer. My brother and I hated that patch. When the fruit was ready, we’d spend long mornings bent over in the hot sun picking berries – itchy, sweaty, back-breaking work – which my parents then gave away to friends and neighbors. One especially hot summer when the season was over, the straw that […]
You know that annoying moment when you’re fully absorbed in eating a cookie, you’re down to the last bite, and you want to soak that final delicious bit in milk, but you don’t want to put your fingers in your milk? Here’s the solution: a cookie with a flange, a little extra handle that allows you to dunk your cookie and eat it too. It’s not a solution for world peace, just a novelty that might make someone smile. I […]
