Odes to Plums
“The Word Plum” by Helen Chasin The word plum is delicious pout and push, luxury of self-love, and savoring murmur full in the mouth and falling like fruit taut skin pierced, bitten, provoked […]
Category Archives: Memory
Confessions of a kalevangelist
I have a new piece up at Table Matters about class, cultural capital, and kale. It was an extremely personal piece for me to write–although I only briefly mention my […]
One teabag at a time
When I lived in New Orleans, I worked mostly in the late afternoon and evening, and had a lot of daytimes wide open for exploration. I spent many an afternoon […]
The Taste Test
Last week I participated in a taste test sponsored by a culinary college near my workplace. Perched on a stool in a teaching kitchen, I sipped from plastic cups of […]
