Deborama’s Kitchen — A Catch-up

Just three ingredients — Brussels sprouts “shaved” by hand, Imperfect Foods “seasoning for all the things,” cheap olive oil. Slightly underdone, to freeze.

I am working on Part Four of the series of reviews of meal kits, etc. This last part will be about grocery delivery services. In the process of starting out, I fell down two distinctly different rabbit holes. One was that I’ve left so much time and life elapse since I last ordered groceries delivered that I can’t really remember much of what I was going to say at the time.

The other was in acknowledging that this one part would be pretty local in application, since I have noticed that although there are only a few mega-corporations controlling all our food (and its even more concentrated if you look at mainly “natural” foods) every metropolis in the US has its own grocery stores, to a degree. The rabbit hole came in when I went to see how many of our grocery stores exist elsewhere, and it’s practically none. I may have to do a whole separate piece about Minnesota’s strange, almost dysfunctional, relationship to the food industry.

This piece here is not about that. It’s just a little chat, a friendly personal greeting about what I’ve been up to. I was in Atlanta from May 21 to 27, for two main reasons. One was a very jolly wedding on May 23. My youngest brother, who’s in his early 50s, has been dating, then living with, then engaged to a woman who seems really good for him, and he is also good for her, she says. Almost the entire family was there for the wedding…