For years now I’ve suffered from garlic salt shame. It’s the seasoning I use most often, thinking that it’s a shortcut, that an accomplished cook with stores of self-respect would employ solo salt and stand-alone garlic that he would strip, dice, and sprinkle on a side dish or main course instead of going the two-in-one…More
Monthly Archives: June 2021
Pass the Fennel
When I was a kid, my junk food of choice, purchased at Pat’s Food Center across the street from my house, or at the park store in the Missaukee County trailer park, was Twinkies or Mars Bar or Three Musketeers bar (Pat’s) or wax lips or wax coke bottle with that syrupy pseudo coca cola…More
And now for something profound…that time I peed my pants
An excerpt from a work in progress, tentative title Tumbling Up, Settling Down.More
Words of Love–how I learned to speak Italian
If you want to learn a foreign language, it helps to get a lover. And read lady books. An excerpt from “Speak to Me,” an essay in Get Thee to a Bakery.More