I find myself craving good news. Lighthearted, feel good news to serve as a chaser for the bitter tastes in the diet of the content we consume. I'm like one of those drug sniffing dogs at the airport, plodding from bag to bag for a whiff of contraband, but instead of heroin, your girl just wants to read stories about bears cooling off in swimming pools.
 
During the pandemic, John Krasinski (that cutie patootie from The Office) started a show from his home called Some Good News. Man, was it a delight, and so desperately needed. In one episode, they surprise a 9 year old girl named Aubrey with the whole cast of Hamilton (her absolute fave) on a Zoom call and she goes completely bananas. I've watched it like 324 times.

I just love summer. It's that time of year where all the veggies are beautiful and abundant and you can make little Muppet noises while cooking with them. What's that? You don't take the goofy looking scapes and the fennel fronds and talk to them in the Swedish Chef voice until such a point that your friends and loved ones start to fret about your mental health and well-being?   Oh. Well then.   This week we have a beautiful and perfectly Muppet-able veggie on offer. The scallions from Kitchen Garden Farm are tall, spikey and packed with a delicious oniony punch.

Good morning friends!

A few quick things!

We spent the past week in France (see pornographic food image above as proof) doing all the things France calls you to do; a lazy oscillation between eating and drinking - drinking and eating. Beyond that, there was little on the agenda except long bouts of aimless walking and hours spent watching the world float by with a glass of Sancerre in hand