According to The Little Book of Second Mentions: The Art of Avoiding Repetition (Bookshop|Amazon), a journalist once referred to a watermelon as the pink-fleshed crowd pleaser. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Pink-Fleshed...
When plucked from a garden catalog and scattered on a page, the names of flower, fruit, and vegetable seeds can lead to surprisingly sexy poetry. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “The Sensual Poetry of Seed Catalogs”...
A haiku from artist Alan Nakagawa’s collection of poems about social distance celebrates the kind of companionship that plants provide. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Plant Haiku” Here’s another pandemic...
If you’re in the Ozarks, you might hear the expression that means the same as water under the bridge or spilled milk: “that melon’s busted.” The idea in all three cases is that something irrevocable has happened, and...
Cat face is a cute way to describe something like a piece of fruit or a tree that’s grown in on itself, giving it a puckered kind of indentation. Particularly in the African-American community, it’s used to denote a wrinkle to be ironed...
In Wisconsin, a slippery Jim is a pickle, usually a pickled cucumber tucked into lunch, though pickled watermelon rind may get the same label. The point is the brine, not just the vegetable: a fresh cucumber isn’t a slippery Jim. This is part of a...