Not sure how you’d quantify “historical figure,” but to my mind, any person who is (1) influential and (2) no longer living fits, so my choice is the late sci-fi/fantasy author Octavia E. Butler. I have no idea what she liked to eat. I’m not a scholar of her works, just a fan. Parable of…
Tag: roasted vegetables
It started with a stalk of sprouts
I don’t usually like to get the stalks of brussels sprouts because the damn things already so much work to prep, but it called to me. I cradled it like a baby–a silent, green, nodule-covered, leafy baby. Mmm. And now you know too much about how my brain works. So I prepared the brussels, starting…