As a cook for a Motley Crew that serves the homeless in Uptown, I have come across a lot of recipes that I’d never eat. They include Indian curry using beef scraps from an Italian diner. I’d always be afraid I’d find a pinky ring in the scraps…still attached to a pinky. Then there’s the recipe for roasted Brussels sprouts […]
The Best Recipe I’ll Never Eat
Weeping Flowers
I love flowers. They are hard to come by in Uptown but when you see them, take your breath away. Like this petunia growing out of the cracks in an alley behind Friendly Towers. There are also a lot of flowers in the private garden, like this purple blanket of color, thanks to our resident gnome, Ted. He’s responsible for keeping […]
Eight Cents a Toe
There were more shoes in his cart than a centipede had feet. “Dang, sir, ” I started, eyeing the blue platform pumps hanging over the push bar, “What are you going to do with all of these shoes?” “What I do, no business to you,” he snapped in a thick Belizean accent. You think I had asked if he was wearing women’s underwear. The […]