Wednesday, December 31, 2008

play with your food

A little more than 20 years ago an ancient Croatian lady, after presenting me and my travel companions with an enormous platter of steamed black Mediterranean mussels, demonstrated how to take a mussel shell and use it as a pincher to pluck the briny, meaty little mollusks from their abodes and pop them into your mouth. It was one of a handful of transforming food experiences that I can clearly identify as a signpost on the road toward my career and lifelong passion for things edible.

Last night we steamed a pot of mussels at home and showed Tiz the drill. She had fun with the exercise and ate more than her share of the mussels. You couldn't have found a prouder papa anywhere.

2 comments:

  1. If you look at these photos at just the right angle, those mussels could be oreo cookies.
    She is the cutest girl in the whole wide world.
    xoxoxo

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  2. Hurrah Tiz! She and her French boyfriend, Max, eat mussels the same way. I think they need a date to show off their mussel eating skills.

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