Emergency Biscuits and the Bill Gates Common Core Imperative
by Susan Ohanian
Here’s today’s grocery list: cranberries, pickled herring, dill pickles, dill herb, cucumber, spinach, bottle of Merlot.
The first six items are a request from my husband, who is recovering from surgery and finding his taste buds out of whack. Nothing tastes good, but he’s experimenting with sour things. Okay, the Merlot is for me, trying to cope with this taste phenomenon.
We keep experimenting. Kosher dill pickles seemed to hit the spot, and then he began spreading a thick layer of dill relish on top of most everything I cooked. With a side of cranberry sauce cooked with 1/16 the sugar called for. I, who’ve always claimed one could put any two foods in an Internet search and come up with a recipe, struck out with the dill pickle-cranberry combo.
The hospital sent us home with Dietary Standards for people who’ve
