It’s shiny, it’s snappy, and it’s taken for granted. How many times in my life have I sunk my teeth into a glossy bar of chocolate without appreciating the science and care involved in keeping this chocolate from melting in my hand? (To answer my own rhetorical question with basic math, it had to be [...]
Some treats that I crave are so guilty that I can’t even stand them sometimes. To want them, I need to be in a dark and reckless mood (or on a road trip). We’re talking perpetrators like Rice Krispy Treats, Sno Cones, and Chee-tos. They require alternate spellings of words because they are not legally [...]
When I was a kid, everyone loved watermelon. On summer’s best days, we rinsed our pink, sticky arms with a hose at home, in a creek at a picnic, or in the ocean when camping. We held seed spitting contests. We had long discussions about whether that whole “growing a watermelon in your stomach” thing was [...]