Oh Miss Lucy, how will I survive
back in the states on burgers and fries?
After conch fritters, chocolate peanut pie,
pepperpot casserole bathed in curry and thyme.
Tamarind sauce over plump pigeon peas,
chicken Colombo under mango chutney.
Plantain pinwheels, fried yam cakes,
banana beignets eaten in haste.
I’ll dream all day of spiced carrot sticks,
chilled ginger beer and malanga chips.
After Miss Lucy’s, food will hold no surprise
Oh Miss Lucy, my taste buds will die!
About the Creator
Rulam Day
In another life I was a pirate, a race car driver, and a spy. But those are stories for another time. Rulam Day is an anagram of my name, Mary Daul. I publish under both.
Inshallah
Istanbul is a city bristling with life, a place where past and present, sacred and profane, intertwine under the watchful gaze of the Sultan Ahmet Mosque. As I explore this crossroads of cultures with Maya, my nine-year-old niece and the daughter of my late brother-in-law Frank, and my wife Nadia, Frank's sister, I find myself on a journey not just through Istanbul's history, but also into the depths of my own beliefs. Staying with Maya and her mother Elvan, my sister-in-law, I begin to see the city anew through their eyes, and to understand why James Baldwin said it "revived" him.
By Geoffrey Philp a day ago in Wander
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Perfect!!!