The Kaki Tree
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
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A Prickly Pear History Lesson
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
Searching for the Cyclops’ Cheese
My mother and I have arrived on a small Greek island in the Myrtoan Sea, a place where the scent of warm pine needles and herbs growing wild on terraced hillsides Continue reading
5 Staff-Approved Millet Recipes for Your Next Meal
EARLIER THIS MONTH, WE PUBLISHED Jori Lewis’s Our Daily Ceeb, an homage to millet, a grain indigenous to Senegal—native to the soil, yes, but far less popular than rice, which was Continue reading
Our Daily Ceeb
WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO DAKAR in 2011, I lived in a small apartment in the compound of a Senegalese family, an in-law unit with its own entrance through the garden. Continue reading