This is so fascinating to me who salts their cantaloupe and who doesn't. I didn't hear of it until my husband, but I keep encountering more and more people who love to salt cantaloupe and watermelon too, something that is just totally foreign to me!
Many years ago, when I was a child, I remember hot summer evenings on the front porch which became an extention of our living area. If there was a whisper of a breeze, we'd feel it there. My Dad's favorite desert was what we called a Boston Cooler (I was raised in Pittsburgh). It was half a canteloupe (fresh from the farmer's market) that my mother filled with vanilla ice cream. The look on his face said it all..."it doesn't get any better than this".
Everything here ignites my senses, Natalie. The all-consuming August, the exhaustion in a perpetual tug-of-war with resolve, the lowered angle of the sun, the hope, the last of the tomatoes, the garden spiders. Again, and again, thank you for your hope...and your expertise.
My father, from eastern NC, ate all melon with a sprinkling of salt. As a result, I did the same as a child. It's a handy flavor booster on a mediocre melon, but I'm sure the habit grew out of the need to replace all the salt lost from so much sweating. Salted melons were the OG of Gatorade!
I find who grew up eating melon with salt fascinating. My husband's family is all from the deep south and it makes sense to me that you need the extra salt in that extreme heat and humidity of summer. In Asian cultures, we don't eat a ton of sweets and a plate of fruit is often served for dessert, so putting salt on melon was entirely alien to me, although I do appreciate the occasional prosciutto wrapped around a slice of cantaloupe.
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Thank you for such kind words!!
I am so deeply envious of that gorgeous cantaloupe! Perhaps my favorite fruit of all—and like your husband, I salt it!
This is so fascinating to me who salts their cantaloupe and who doesn't. I didn't hear of it until my husband, but I keep encountering more and more people who love to salt cantaloupe and watermelon too, something that is just totally foreign to me!
Many years ago, when I was a child, I remember hot summer evenings on the front porch which became an extention of our living area. If there was a whisper of a breeze, we'd feel it there. My Dad's favorite desert was what we called a Boston Cooler (I was raised in Pittsburgh). It was half a canteloupe (fresh from the farmer's market) that my mother filled with vanilla ice cream. The look on his face said it all..."it doesn't get any better than this".
Ohhhhhhh that sounds absolutely divine!!!
Dessert! (typo)
Everything here ignites my senses, Natalie. The all-consuming August, the exhaustion in a perpetual tug-of-war with resolve, the lowered angle of the sun, the hope, the last of the tomatoes, the garden spiders. Again, and again, thank you for your hope...and your expertise.
My father, from eastern NC, ate all melon with a sprinkling of salt. As a result, I did the same as a child. It's a handy flavor booster on a mediocre melon, but I'm sure the habit grew out of the need to replace all the salt lost from so much sweating. Salted melons were the OG of Gatorade!
Thank you, Elizabeth!
I find who grew up eating melon with salt fascinating. My husband's family is all from the deep south and it makes sense to me that you need the extra salt in that extreme heat and humidity of summer. In Asian cultures, we don't eat a ton of sweets and a plate of fruit is often served for dessert, so putting salt on melon was entirely alien to me, although I do appreciate the occasional prosciutto wrapped around a slice of cantaloupe.
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Thanks for you vision from transition!
I feel like to be a farmer and work with the earth is to always be in a state of transition!