When food is a memory

One of those simple-yet-heavy lifting prompts today, folks

Today, make a list of ten or more specific foods with which you have a strong associated memory. Maybe that’s a special cake your grandmother made for your sixth birthday, a perfect peach you picked from a roadside tree when you were twelve, your wedding cake, 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.

(Save everything else on the list to your master idea file and write about them later.)