In high school, I think I read about one-third of the way through Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Bean Trees before I put it down in disgust. I was just getting to the part where the protagonist, a single mother, and her young daughter hop into their Volkswagen Beetle, with all their worldly possessions and head [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘food’
August 28, 2008
secret Child
Just found out some interesting news. My hero, Julia Child, was a spy for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. (wow!) Along with 24,000 other soldiers, actors, historians, and other assorted, distinguished persons, Child was officially outed by the U.S. National Archive as having served in this early version of the CIA. [...]
July 23, 2008
understanding my eating
Today I ate:
- a bowl of raisin bran
- two nectarines
- two iced coffees
- three inches of day old baguette; sliced into quarter-inch units
- a serving of mixed roast squash, leftover
- two slices of pizza; one meatless, one with pepperoni
- a mango soda
- two brownies
- a glass of milk
This is my life right now. A mixture [...]
