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"All in the Pumpkins" in Orion Magazine

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Parker Brothers, ca. 1920

I’m thrilled to have a new essay online at Orion Magazine today, “All in the Pumpkins.” This is my third piece in Orion, and another essay from the collection I’ve been working on since 2013, on food and cultural memory. Here’s how it begins:

“I feel tender toward you, and not like that pumpkin we threw out today,” my husband said. It was October 2020 in Chicago.

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