As I’ve been bringing yoga into my #30daysofnewthings challenge, there’s something I’ve been avoiding: Anything where I’m relying on the upper body strength I don’t have to keep me from a supercharged faceplant fueled by the added weight of my graceless legs and man-like torso. “Day Four – I’ve never been permanently paralyzed before!” #newthings (Dear glob, please don’t let that be the price for my wanderlust and sense of.. Read More
King Durian – a slutty fruit fairytale.
I kinda stand up straight like a roman emperor after grocery day. Looking upon my vast and frigid kingdom in a box, the landscape of my gastronomically seductive empire comprises colors that delight the eyes and jump start the belly with all its prismatic glory. There’s water filled fluorescent fruits dotting the shelves hither and thither. There’s enoki, maitake, and whatever the pre-sliced mushrooms are called in the drawers below… Read More
Cavendish cadavers: Are bananas going extinct?
First they’re telling me avocados might die, now bananas? You know, fungus is great when it’s adjacent to the produce aisle in Wegmans. I’m obsessed with the shitake, mitake, GeorgeTakei and all the other edible mushrooms my stomach hasn’t met yet. But the kinda fungus that destroys stuff like bananas before it can come sit in the produce aisle? That really cramps my style. And it’ll be putting a cramp.. Read More