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Yesterday I realized I'd left the back door unlocked for four straight days and nights
I declare today a victory in toroidal foods. I was in Medford for my follow-up with the ENT (which went well), so I stopped by Donuts with a Difference afterward, and then I returned home circuituously by way of Bow Market in Union Square, where I got a hot bagel with salmon belly lox and caper-parsley cream cheese from Hooked. The counterman was one of the owners, a former chef and current fisherman; he told me they're still waiting for the season to really start, but in the meantime their fresh oysters, salmon, scallops, and skate wings looked lovely. They sell smoked and fresh seafood, bowls, tacos, soups, bagels. There is a giant squid with a tangling armful of buoys and irons painted across their wall and much of their floor. And they are about twenty minutes' walk from me.
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Many aspects of this country are on fire, but I like what we do with food!
(We do have good scallops here; a benefit of the lough with such tides at its mouth that the Vikings termed it 'strong fiord', which remains its name to this day).
I am glad to hear of the scallops. Also I don't think I knew exactly where you were before, and now I have Seamus Heaney's North in my head.
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There is a good little Seamus Heaney centre. As one might hope it has a small but focussed bookshop; I got a nice Faber&Faber copy of his "New Selected Poems 1988-2013", and Marie Heaney's "Over Nine Waves", which is probably the best Irish mythos cycle around at the moment.
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I'm glad of both of these things.
and Marie Heaney's "Over Nine Waves", which is probably the best Irish mythos cycle around at the moment.
I haven't read that! Thank you for the pointer.