This very first Grown Diaries experiment is a type of melon, defined at Wikipedia as: ‘…the fruit and plant of a typically vine-like (climber and trailer) herb that was first cultivated more than 4000 years ago (~ 2000 BC) in Persia and Africa…. Many different melon cultivars have been produced, perhaps the most popular or [...]
To broaden the story a bit, there is a subset of fruits and vegetables that I have over the years liked or even loved the taste of, but the regular forms of which I could not stand. The perfect example is tomatoes. I love tomato, always have, but only in sauce or liquid format, like [...]
The title of this post is a line from a 1996 article on Slate, The Omnivore: Learning to eat everything, by Jeffrey Steingarten. Reading it was one of the sparks that inspired this effort of mine and, by extension, this site, although I didn’t happen across the article until a year ago or so. ‘By [...]
I do not now hate every last bit of produce and will in good time enumerate the palatable ones in this space. But the vast majority of those things grown in the ground, on the vine, or on the tree I have despised over the years. I don’t believe I hate any food at the moment. [...]
I have been told by not unreliable authorities that there was a time early in my life when I loved fruits and vegetables. At some undefined point between then and my first coherent memories, my love affair turned bad. I grew to loathe virtually all of them. If it was grown, I likely hated it. And [...]
