{"id":25,"date":"2009-07-05T13:39:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2soar.info\/word\/?p=25"},"modified":"2017-07-08T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T18:06:35","slug":"peaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2009\/07\/05\/peaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Father’s Daugher Moment: Peaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve just finished reading Barbara Kingsolver\u2019s book \u201cAnimal Vegetable Miracle\u201d about her family’s year of eating as locally as they could.\u00a0 <\/span>I confess I won\u2019t be doing nearly the local eating that they did but I have begun to visit farmer\u2019s markets in my area.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Last Sunday\u2019s visit to the farmer\u2019s market had early peaches that smelled so wonderful they brought me back to my youth.\u00a0 <\/span>I hadn\u2019t smelled that fragrance in forty years.\u00a0 <\/span>I couldn\u2019t buy the whole bushel the way we used to but I brought home a half dozen.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As I was cutting one open I remembered how my father used to hold the peach in one hand and work the knife around the crease until it fell open.\u00a0 <\/span>The pit was almost always split with the seed inside showing.\u00a0 <\/span>He could carve around the pit if necessary but most times they would just lift away from the flesh of the peach.\u00a0 <\/span>I buried many a peach seed in the back yard but never produced a tree.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Then he would slice the peaches into a bowl of milk and Frosted Flakes.\u00a0 <\/span>The sweet inside of the peach and the slightly bitter skin worked so well with the crunchy sweet flakes and milk. Real milk from the milkman, we didn\u2019t know about 1% or skim back then.\u00a0 <\/span>It was a delicious combination especially at the end when you would slurp the sweetened milk from the bottom of the bowl.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It became very clear to me what Barbara Kingsolver was talking about with regard to taste and the perfection of locally grown foods.\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t buy Frosted Flakes any more, nor do I buy whole milk\u00a0and my father is no longer with us. But for that one moment I could have been sitting at the Formica kitchen table on Hillside Avenue.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Where I can, I hope to take advantage of locally grown fruits, vegetables, cheeses and meats. It also became clear to me that our connections to those foods are the makings of future father\u2019s daughter moments that I hope more people will make the most of.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You can visit <\/span>http:\/\/www.animalvegetablemiracle.com\/<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span>to learn more from Barbara and her family.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve just finished reading Barbara Kingsolver\u2019s book \u201cAnimal Vegetable Miracle\u201d about her family’s year of eating as locally as they could.\u00a0 I confess I won\u2019t be doing nearly the local eating that they did but I have begun to visit … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fathers-daughter-moments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s27hQ5-peaches","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3282,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}