Yes, I admit it, I made up the word “kerneling.” But it so perfectly encompasses the act of removing kernels from corn cobs, and I’ve spent so much time doing precisely that over the last week, that I think there should be a word for the task. Ergo, I petition that we should all adopt [Read more]
Archive for August, 2012
How to Grow Corn: Things Are About to Get Personal
Field of Dreams is my favorite movie (reminder: the field in question is a corn field). I spent my early teenage years in Utah picking corn for a quarter a dozen at a local farm (way better pay than the 4o cents a bucket we got paid for prickly zucchini). Corn on the cob is [Read more]
The Best Part of the Party
I had a party to celebrate the publication of my first novel this week, and is it weird that the flowers were maybe my favorite part? I live right down the street from Emily Thompson Flowers, and I pass by her beautiful shop all the time. I’ve stopped in for bouquets, but I’ve been dying [Read more]