In our third guest post, the indomitable Anne Delano Steinert brings you her quarantine crisp. If you missed our previous posts, you can still catch up with “Forlorn Kale, Dejected Eggplant” and “A Bad Sourdough Recipe.” I live in a two-person household — myself and a very picky eating nine year-old — so basically I’m […]
Category: New American
We Ate Weeds from the Yard
It finally happened. Anjali had been threatening to harvest the overabundance for weeks. We ate dandelion greens. Weeds. We ate weeds. It helped (didn’t help) that our yard is full of them because we’ve lived here for one a month and given nothing more to our lawn than two really bad haircuts with the jinky […]
Mystery “Meat” Surprise
I went to a . . . special . . . high school. Our mascot was the controversy-free Unicorn. UNI PRIDE! Yes, all you NC mascot buffs — I went to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. Part of this story is that the state funds the school, so where budget cuts are […]
The Fire Episode
I noted in a previous post that my Saturday started with fluffy, delicious buttermilk pancakes and ended in fire. It’s time to explain. See, on Friday night Anjali and I went for a walk around the neighborhood. With classic Wingo “nothing-to-see-here” nonchalance, I picked up several large branches and carried them back home. There’s no […]