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Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Out Of The Bed And Into The Frying Pan
It’s so strange to sit here listening to you talk of how fat you were, comparing your past and present dimensions like some baseball record.
October 1974
Fiction
Food Stamps In The Land Of The Free, Where Nothing Is
News item: North Carolina is listed as one of the states where the food stamp program is underused. Social workers say they can’t seem to interest eligible families to come in and sign up.
October 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
American Cheese
American cheese on white bread. Dry and joyless. Wholly unsatisfying yet, as a bus station refreshment, wholly appropriate. The bread is without flavor or soul, edible foam rubber, hardly the staff of life. The cheese is mostly chemical. But we are far from the farm.
October 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Politics Of Food
It’s very difficult for me to write about food — so many trips and so much worry, joy, and compulsion. My first impulse is to go into a Yiddish tragic-comedy about the whole thing, but not now. My second impulse is to go into a long talk about all the changes in my own feelings and habits surrounding food, but that doesn’t seem right either.
October 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
[The best alternative energy sources]
The best alternative energy sources, according to Watson Morris of ECOS, are “doing away with present wasteful practices.”
January 1974![[The best alternative energy sources]](http://www.thesunmagazine.org/ext/resources/2020/08/1486591368_1-7-drawing-preview.jpg?1713552000)
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