Radish-Tropia: Life Seen Through the Radish Lens

I yam what I yam
Ravishing radish
With or without my prurient greens

An unrolled radish gathers no moss
Ivory daikonery statuesquery

Celebrant radishes work and worry

And the Sacred Mother Radish reigns the wrinkled world
White-hearted, wrinkle-headed. Delicious?

Crunchy.

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Superheroes: Food and Fashion: “We Be Stylin’ “

Superheroes seem to keep popping up in my world.
They are appearing in more forms than I’d ever imagined on the pages of the book I’m reading right now – ‘Who Can Save Us Now – Brand New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories’ . They’re on the pages of  ‘Mental Floss‘ magazine this month in [...]

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Food Art in Gastronomica

One of the great things about Gastronomica is that Darra Goldstein knows a lot about art. What I mean to say is that she knows a lot about Art. The good stuff, the stuff that is capitalized, the stuff that is artlessly artful.
Another one of the good things about Gastronomica is that there is a [...]

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The Case of the Missing Snack

by Branston, P.I.
It was 2:30 AM by the clock at my bedside and I’d awoken with a sudden start. Lightning briefly flashed outside my window. Something felt terribly wrong.
We were staying at the country estate of Kincaid Eblowster, the world-famous art critic. He’d hired me to find the jewels that had been stolen from an [...]

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