“If you know what you are doing in a Michigan winter, you will greet depression with depressants. Pad your dying soul with flesh. Give up and get fat. Hibernate. In the impossible spring, your cheeks will be round enough for the right spargel grin. A grin worthy of the triump of cathedral tips breaking through the ground: the asparagus is here! The asparagus is all that’s here, in the farmers’ market in May, aside from a few stalks of rhubarb. We are still wobbly on our indoor legs. Under our eyes are deep circles of leftover winter despair. We have been waiting so long for a vegetable or fruit.”
― “Asparagus Superhero” by Phoebe Nobles, from “Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One”, edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
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