Thursday November 24, 2022; 8:52 AM EST
- It's obvious, but that doesn't mean I've ever thought about it. Mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie. Obviously, seasonal foods are seasonal not because we associate them with a particular holiday meal but because they are in season, produced by farms now and not at other times of year, by reason of natural cycles. Not thinking about it suggests how little a person from the metro area can get by ever thinking about nature. About its cycles, about its health, about our relationship to it.#