Kitchen
Vegetables I cannot name
The new shop by the school sells things I have never cooked. I buy one each week.
Maja Lindqvist
A family opened a grocery where the hardware store used to be. Crates of chillies, long green beans, a gourd with bumps on it like a crocodile. I asked the owner what to do with it. She told me, slowly, twice.
I fried it with garlic and it was bitter in a way that made me want more. The kids hated it. I had seconds.
The rule
One unknown vegetable a week. I ask how to cook it and do what I am told. So far I am six weeks in and only one thing ended up in the compost.
