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Stuart Gillespie's avatar

another great post, Errol...thanks!

aspoonfulofstories's avatar

We need more narratives like this. The rhetoric of glamorizing our ancestors diets is bizarre and erasing. This is so real, and so many people have similar stories.

Lesley Sykes's avatar

Beautifully written - I love how you moved through generations, showing how what we eat is shaped by time, place, and circumstance.

Valerie Sims's avatar

The entire post was great! But I also thank you for the quote by General Butler. 1931? When will we ever learn?

Peace.

Robert Brewer's avatar

Awesome. My Grandfathers were grocers - Brewer's Grocery in Waycross GA sitting right next to the tracks serving all communities, and a Step-Grandfathers produce stand where I spent time in summers learning about tomatoes, peaches, storage, stacking, and picking watermelons out of the fields at ungodly o'clock in the morning...(in order to be back in time to stack the tomatoes for the day). Thanks as always Errol. I truly appreciate you.