Best Salmon I’ve ever had. The sushi grade Hamachi & Tuna. Salty Scallops, right off a day boat, looking for a hot pan.
These Sumo oranges the size of grapefruits! Juxtapose that thought against your nearby memory of the tiny Kishu mandarin.
That crunchy green grape? That burgundy cherry. The big blueberry. And those blackberries! Yes, the blackberries. Did I mention them?
A Galia melon, so crisp & sweet. The superior sour of the passion fruit, the sweet-tart nectariness, the bergamots? The mandarinquats. That’s right. Madarinquat.
And oh! That ripe avocado giving way to the edge of my spoon? The French green beans, transforming in the steam, waiting for the garlic & ginger. Did I mention it?
And did I tell you about the Radicchios from Italy that grow like alien flowers in Vesuvius’s lava’d soil? Did I?
Did I tell you about my father clpping the bloom of a rose in the new day’s morning light? Did I tell you about that time? Did I tell you what he said?
”Nature is good, boy. Nature is good.”
