Like many sensible people, Jack Arnott is a mycophobe — someone who has a so-called irrational fear of mushrooms. And, as he writes in the Guardian, “Invasion of the mushrooms”, the enemy is upon us. It’s a bad time of year for me; in fact, according to some sources, my pain could be stretching [...]
With all this melodrama about what should be a simple thing — eating food — this might be a good time to list some of the fruits and veggies I’ve liked most of my life, not counting the ones I’ve recently discovered this past couple of years. The listed items do not count non-original forms, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
