Status Updates From Deep Run Roots: Stories and...

Peaches! Rutabagas! Apples! Beets!
2 more crops. I’ll be quite literally so sad when this is over.

“The glaze is hot pepper jelly’s baby sister and the family’s favorite (I have some experience with this dynamic, so I’ll call it as I see it)” (452).

Summer squash, sausage, peanuts, okra, and collards!!!
“Think about all the planning our forefathers went to just to put food on the table. Next think about how they were so desperate not to waste anything remotely edible that they decided to stuff a shit sack with sausage & hang it to cure till it tasted good. Then think about that food you just through in the trash” (361).
‘Nuff said.

Have since read blueberries, sweet corn, cucs, toms, rice, and sweet pots.

“My Uncle Redding, who lived to be a hundred, ate a sweet potato everyday of his life and made sure everybody he met knew it” (308). Uncle Redding is onto something.

Summer Squash is up next. This is getting good.

Back with Viv! Beans & Peas & Figs this time around.

“And here Scott was telling me that what I loved were just immature versions of the most boring bean on earth” (151).

“Preserves are the lacy-dress cousin to Jean-cutoffs jam” (178).