Food memories
One of those simple-yet-weirdly-heavy-lifting prompts
Today, make a list of ten or more specific foods with which you have a strongly associated memory. Maybe that’s a special cake your grandmother made for your sixth birthday, the lemon cake at your wedding, a perfect peach you picked from a roadside tree when you were twelve, or the time you ate a local dish for the first time in a new place. Make your list and pick one to write about right away. “Write about it” might mean literally writing about that food and that day, but it also could mean the food becomes a mere prop in a bigger story, like the bigger role that day played for you.
(Save everything else on the list to your master idea file and write about them later.)
