There's a whole world out there...
I went to a nearby produce store the other day--without children--and spent a few minutes wandering through the aisles. This shop is on the city border, and is quite wonderfully diverse in both its shoppers and produce. For example, there is an entire aisle devoted to root vegetables I've never even heard of. Malanga? Chayote? Boniot? They're stacked high and people load them into their carts with the sort of firm decision that makes me realize they know what they're buying and how to cook and eat it.Meanwhile I glance into my cart with its pedestrian plastic-wrapped head of iceberg lettuce, a few shiny Macintosh apples, and here's the most exotic thing I'm buying--parsnips--and hang my head in culinary shame. I want to tap someone on the shoulder, someone who has a cart full of exotic fruits and vegetables, and say 'What are you cooking and may I please have the recipe?'
Now the back of the shop is devoted to fish--octopus, squid, all sorts--and when people leave the counter with their freshly wrapped purchases, I steer clear. No octopus for me today, thank you. There's exotic and then there's insane.
I've been receiving some emails from people all around the world who have enjoyed The Italian's Chosen Wife, and I'm so pleased that they read it, enjoyed it, and took the time to write! So thank you, thank you, to all of you out there in that great, big, wonderful world who have come across my book and found something worthwhile in its pages. Do you have any good recipes?? :)
posted by Kate Hewitt at
10:24 AM
