Rediscovering Oysters

Prior to a few months ago it had been years since I’d had an oyster. So many years in fact that I could not remember how I felt about them. I was in my early twenties. I was in a bar somewhere (it seems a lot of my stories from my younger years start withContinue reading “Rediscovering Oysters”

If God Made Anything More Tasty Than The Olive He Kept It For Himself

When I was around eight years old, maybe ten, I woke up early one morning and went out to the kitchen. I was the first one up and much of the remains from a party my parents had hosted the evening before were still laying about. The first thing to catch my eye was aContinue reading “If God Made Anything More Tasty Than The Olive He Kept It For Himself”

On Books and Food

I have always loved books. I have vague recollections from early childhood of being read to and never wanting it to stop. I recall taking books in my hands and pretending to read them, speaking the story aloud, as best I could, from memory. The first book I remember reading on my own was aContinue reading “On Books and Food”