I went to the Ribfest on Sparks Street again this year, but as usual I couldn’t bring myself to eat anything. I like ribs. But for some reason I find them kind of disturbing at Ribfest. There’s just…so MANY of them. Everybody’s standing around eating ribs out of styrofoam containers, and I don’t want to […]

My friend Janet has a number of food sensitivities and allergies. She has pretty much avoided meat for years. But recently we met for a drink on a patio, chosen for its proximity to Saslov’s butcher shop.

“I’m going to start eating meat again,” she announced, “because the list of foods I can no longer […]

I don’t know how anybody in this city manages to grow anything from seed with all the vermin squirrels running around. Most of the time they don’t even eat the seedlings, they just dig them up to see if I buried a peanut down there.

They usually attack within minutes of me planting the seedlings, but […]

I’m so pleased I finally got a picture of this woman. I only regret that it happened in the summertime when she appears to be normal, which she’s not. She’s a lot hotter than she looks.

She dresses in this exact same outfit every day of the year.

It can be forty below zero with […]