wcfoodies:
Those annoying fruit stickers can, apparently, be quiet informative:
- A 4-number code denotes conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables (pesticides used);
- A 5-number code beginning with 8 means, organic or not, the fruit or vegetable was genetically modified (GE or GMO);
- And a 5-number code beginning with 9 means the fruit was organically grown without genetic modification.
My mother had a poetic explanation for my dislike. She insisted that cilantro was a coming-of-age herb, and a love of its flavor came with the onset of adulthood. She said she didn’t like it herself until she was older. Cilantro, in other words, was puberty of the palate. I thought this was, too, a ruse, for the sure way to get any child to try anything was to assert that they are not grown-up enough to appreciate it.
I’ve always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. … I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.
When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It’s also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.
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Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009
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