I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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I think peas are really nasty. I liked them when I was younger, but I guess when you get older you have different taste buds.
If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.
How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.
I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.
When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.
We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.
You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.
We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.
Growing up in Texas, mum had five girls to feed on a very limited budget, so we'd end up eating the same thing until it was gone - some weeks it was carrots.
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