All in the Pumpkins
“We put into a small Port, called the Boohoole, which we afterwards named the Pumpkin-Bay, because of its fertility in bearing of Pumpkins.” —J. Quarles, The Tyranny of the Dutch Against Continue reading
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“We put into a small Port, called the Boohoole, which we afterwards named the Pumpkin-Bay, because of its fertility in bearing of Pumpkins.” —J. Quarles, The Tyranny of the Dutch Against Continue reading
I DIDN’T PLANT THE VINES that bore them, these sharply sweet, sweetly sour fruits piled in a bowl on my kitchen table. I didn’t ask the vines to come. To be honest, Continue reading
IN THE SUMMER OF 2021, I strapped my two small children into the car and drove twelve hundred miles through hurricane rains and clouds of wildfire ash to can peaches with Continue reading
MY GRANDMOTHER HAD A KAKI TREE. It grew in the backyard of her house on the outskirts of Paris. Kakis (or persimmons, as some call them) grow in winter, when most Continue reading
SUMMER MONSOONS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN Sonoran Desert produce a wild bounty of crimson fruit. Rising from Engelmann’s prickly pear cacti (Opuntia engelmannii), these fruits, or tuna in Spanish, perch atop Mickey Continue reading