Category Archives: Food

Wendell Berry Quote On Food

February 4, 2012 – 6:09 am

I once brought a head of broccoli to the counter of a supermarket outside of Poughkeepsie. The young cashier regarded it with an alien’s disgust for earth. “What is it?” “Broccoli.” It’s one of the few words that is the same around the world. “I’ve never seen it before.” She was probably 17. “Have you [...]

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Paffgen Brewery

December 20, 2011 – 3:50 am

Last evening I dined at Paffgen Brauerei, the last family brewery in Cologne. The beer served at this establishment is called “Kölsch” once the most popular beverage in the city. Once a dark beer, the draught’s color was changed to resemble a pilsner. It is still served from the keg at Paffgen and I ordered [...]

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Happy Thanks Wampanoags

November 24, 2011 – 8:05 am

My family’s ancestors crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower. The Howland clan spent that first autumn in Plymouth. Their food supplies were dangerously low and only the intervention by the native tribes spared the settlers from starvation. Americans have celebrated the largess of the Indians with an annual feast of turkey and all the fixings. [...]

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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter

November 23, 2011 – 10:17 am

Butter was supplanted by margarine in the 1960s. Ads from the corn council extolled its taste and the supermarkets priced the corn-based spread cheaper than butter. I refused to eat the shit. My mother refused to buy butter, so I spent the money from my paper route to buy butter. I wouldn’t give any to [...]

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BAD INFLUENCE by Peter Nolan Smith

November 22, 2011 – 6:50 am

Three years ago Enos Washing had overdosed from a long night of too much of everything. The Rockaway Beach native had been surprised to wake up alive and submitted himself to cold-turkey from his excesses, for his weary heart had been knocking on death’s door like a V8 engine without any lubrication. Enos had deleted [...]

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