THAT’S A BIG BLACK WIDOW, I thought, as my flashlight’s beam illuminated a leggy onyx marble with a red hourglass inlay. It was an October evening, shortly after the summer heat and nectar-feeding ...
WHEN I WAS SEVEN, I floated the Green River with my dad, who was more concerned with catching cutthroats than steering our raft past standing waves and sinkholes. It was cloudy, rainy, and cold, and ...
PARTWAY THROUGH MY CONVERSATION with food scientist David Zilber, he began reeling off the names of various fermented foods. It wasn’t until Zilber started going down the list that I realized just how ...
THE CLOCK STRIKES NOON in Sydney’s central business district. Dressed in black and white, with bald heads balanced atop long, elegant necks, droves of perhaps the city’s most distinctive ...
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THE PIECE OF DRIED FISH I just put in my mouth refuses to bend. I’m stuck with my jaw half-open and awkwardly stretch my lips to hide the silver skin wedged between my teeth. I must wait for my saliva ...
WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, my friend Grace flew up from Tallahassee during her spring break to spend a few nights in my D.C. apartment. Her mother had sent her with an envelope containing two hundred ...
A POTATO SHOULDN’T taste like metal. Your first bite should hold a flavor lent to it by the earth itself—the rain trapped beneath its skin and the gentle warmth of the sun on a field. It should be ...
THERE’S HONEY BETWEEN MY TOES. I see it before I feel it. Dripping down between the big and second toes of my left foot, bits of wax adhered to the knuckle and toenail. Chelsea walks through the front ...
IT TOOK SOME CENTURIES, but humans are finally wising up to the wondrous ways of the octopus clan. Clever predators with big-brained prowess, these cephalopods are champion problem-solvers, masters of ...
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