Comfort Me With Beets
A Life In Recipes
Tag: memoir
The Lonely Hours Before Supper
This essay of mine was previously published in Meat For Tea: The Valley Review in March, 2019. My mother reaches for a small square book with a picture of a bowl of fruit on the cover, its title, “The Calorie Counter.” We are in the checkout line at Food City, north of the QEW in …
Why another food blog?
To write about food and hunger is to write about power and love. MFK Fisher asserted as much in the introduction to her book, The Gastronomical Me. This understanding made her into one of the greatest food writers ever. This is why food blogs are so ubiquitous. On an unconscious level those of us who …
