It's very hot this week in much of the U.S. Those of us who live in places like Arkansas know a thing or two about the heat, and about how to cook and eat when appetites flag due to the blast furnace the world has suddenly become, and when the desire to be in a hot kitchen succumbs to summertime torpor. As a public service to the rest of those not blessed to live in a perpetual sauna, here's my own prescription for eating well despite soaring temperatures:
I almost skipped over this. Then, I remember how my grandmother routinely prepared a similar dish and how a young pre-teen actually enjoyed and ate it. Then, when I lived on a ranch, we had eggplant growing in the garden and regularly ate it. [Haven't eaten any that I remember in the 60 years since] From Bilgrimage: Cooking to Save the Planet: Fried Eggplant