Excerpt from "The Pomegranate"
by Alexia Vanides
28 October 1971
This poem excerpt comes from the cookbook my older sister made for me as I went off to college. This treasured, hand-crafted (and hand-typed with Courier font!) cookbook is entitled "Cheap and Good". She filled it with her recipes for surviving college - gastronomical and poetic advice for her little brother. I credit her with giving me the courage to cook with abandon, not like the engineering-minded person I used to be who was at that time more comfortable putting things in straight lines.
Thanks, Lex, for gift of non-straight-line-thinking. I just had to celebrate by playing with some pomegranate seeds...
