Table Tales – 150 word stories
exploring food and memory
According to the nutrition model, there are seven types of food. Out of all of them, my favorite is the one everyone shuns – carbohydrates. I just can’t resist all the different types of bread, cookies, spaghetti, Coke, pies, cakes, corn, muffins, or any of those other glorious options. There is nothing like biting into…
Every morning, my grandmother, whose mission in life was to feed us, would present me with five almonds in a stainless steel bowl, soaked overnight and peeled. “They’ll make you smarter,” she’d quip, as I gulped them down and ran for the school bus. Before every trip we took – by plane, train or automobile…
I’m in first grade. Just moved from England to Oregon. Never heard of it. Never ate it. Peanut butter and jelly. I’m at David’s house down the street. “Try it,” he said. I opened the slices of bread. It was a slimy mess. Red jelly. It was like uncovering a Band-Aid. “Try it,” he said.…
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We are a group that formed during the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. We met weekly via Zoom to discuss writing and food. What we discovered as we wrote was that while food was the starting point, the stories that we remembered were about our families, our friends and the person we were at the time of the meal.
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Table Tales - 150 word stories