We're poised to wave goodbye to spring in favor of longer days, warm breezes and the satisfaction of summer. This is truly a poem for June, then, as it praises the labor, the farmer, the gathering, and the feasting of the coming season. (Also, thanks go to The Yellow House for posting this poem last month and providing some of the inspiration here today.)
Often the books stay open for days, face down, saved on a page that stuck with me, that I need to go back and review, that needs a recipe. I don't pick them up automatically. There are food magazines to peruse and dinner to be made, the dog to walk, the food system to keep up with, laundry to be done, graduation cards to send, and online shopping to be done, among other things. I know we all have our own noise. All good things mostly, but things that train us (for better or worse), to do several tasks at once instead of what poetry requires: to be fully present in the moment, reading the words on the page and letting them sink in like crusty bread sopping up olive oil from the mouth of a bowl.
Ahi roll and yellowtail tartare, birthday dinner at Scarpetta
Here are my May favorites from around the web.
1. Sort of like Tastespotting for web design, SiteInspire curates the web's most beautiful sites
2. Kelsey's rhubarb oatmeal
3. This Ted video about great leaders and communicating from the inside out is quite inspiring
5. I've been loving all sorts of salads lately, and this is a great place to browse for inspiration
6. This post from The Yellow House, featuring a poem by Marge Piercy (and don't worry, I've already thought of a recipe to go with it for an upcoming post)!
7. I ate here on my birthday, and the tasting menu did not disappoint
8. If you can't attend a workshop with her in person, read Dianne Jacob's book Will Write for Food
9. Excited to get my hands on this new food magazine
10. Heidi's summer pop-up shop, Quitokeeto
Emma turned 10 months!