Our freezer didn’t hold a lot of different flavors of ice cream when I was a kid. I remember a stretch when we went through a lot of Neapolitan—the Italian tricolor of vanilla, strawberry and chocolate—but most of the time it was just vanilla. Part of the reason for this was that my dad is […]
Daylight savings time was still a month from being over, and that was fine by me. I needed all the savings I could muster. Things had been a bit busy at the Soup Blog household of late with extra work and afterschool activities stretching each hour as thin as it could get. I needed a […]
Unlike the images all over the internet today… most of the naked “art” I remember growing up involved delicately placed fig leaves. My home town of Palos Verdes Estates even had a statue of a naked King Neptune standing in the middle of Malaga Cove Plaza, who, by the time I was old enough to […]
I once had a love affair with caramel. Plunging into the romance with the recklessness only a child would dare, I stuffed my mouth with the sticky goop until my cheeks bulged out and savored the sweet buttery taste even as I worked frantically to get the thick strands unstuck from my teeth. (Sigh.) I […]
Coconut is not really a children’s flavor. It was definitely my least favorite flavor growing and I wasn’t alone in feeling this way. Whenever a parent brought a box of donuts to a childrens event, a morning baseball game or a pre-dawn field trip to the tide pools, the last one left in the box […]
For some reason pears do not like me. I’ve always been fond of these sweeter cousins of the apple, but they tend to keep their distance. What I mean is that I never seem to get them at the right time. They’re either really hard when I buy them or so ripe they have to […]
I’ve always enjoyed the smell of coffee. I haven’t always enjoyed the taste. That came more slowly. My dad was the only coffee drinker in my family. My mom, being a canuck, drank tea. The only nod my mom made toward the coffee drinkers of the world, which didn’t include any of us at the […]
