Comments on: Now here, now there

By: Fernando

Fernando — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:38:33 +0000

Dear Molly Wizenberg

My name is Fernando and I teach English as a foreign language in Brazil. First of all, congratulations on your blog, thanks for sharing with us such a particular moment and your life experience.
This text is in a book by Macmillan publisher, called “Global Upper-Intermediate”. My students loved the story and the lexical level of your work.

Thank you very much!

Your faithfully,

Fernando.

By: Bella Mills

Bella Mills — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:56:52 +0000

I love reading through your older posts Molly. I grew up with oysters and have a somewhat different perspective (I LOVE them) but your descriptions, as always is so entertaining. Thank you.
Oh and that picture you took of the back of the brunette girl at the bar. Beautiful Did you take it with the Pentax K 1000? You know, you inspired me to purchase one. It's in the mail as I type :) Even if you took it with a different camera, it's still a stunning picture. I feel like I'm there, at the other end of the bar.
Bella @ seaandsalt.com
xx

By: Bella Mills

Bella Mills — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:56:52 +0000

By: Jess @ ThisIsWhatIAte

Jess @ ThisIsWhatIAte — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:17:52 +0000

(Long time reader, first time commenter. Hi.)
Isn't it funny how new flavors and new foods grow on us, sometimes so slowly?

I had my first oyster at age 25 on the beach in Homer, Alaska. It's still not something I can eat all the time, but it seems important to know how.

By: Shut Up and Cook

Shut Up and Cook — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:06:04 +0000

Glad you came on over to the dark side! I find oysters most enjoyable in shooters with a good vodka.

Here's how we rang in the New Year.

Oyster Shooters and Oysters on the Half Shell http://wp.me/puWta-9B

Happy 2011!

By: Ταχυδρόμος!

Ταχυδρόμος! — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:12:36 +0000

Oysters rock..

By: Mommy of three

Mommy of three — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:12:21 +0000

First, you must read this comment with the knowledge that I am 8 weeks pregnant and on the verge of hormonal insanity.
Second, I wanted to say that I have not read your blog, or any blog in about 2 months (tired and sick and food writing, especially, didn't sit well) and I am just catching up today.
This post made me cry.
Your writing, your photographs, the way you capture so much beauty and feeling as you tell me about oysters--it moved me.
Maybe it was the man from Texas and his son.
I am glad to be back.
And I thought you should know.

I am still terrified of oysters though. I don't know if I'll ever be able to summon your courage.
Love from,
Greta

By: Bronwen

Bronwen — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:35:41 +0000

I love your recipes, I love your stories and rich connections between food and family, and I *really* love your beautiful writing. This paragraph is one of my favorites ever (this is Bronwen — I sent you my “pink Cookie” poems once): “I made everyone look away, and then I ate it. Only one, and it was tiny, but I ate it. I chewed and everything. I didn’t die. And when I swallowed, the flavor rang around my mouth the way the ringing of a bell ricochets inside a cathedral, now here, now there, and it did that for maybe ten seconds, now here, now there, before it dissipated. It tasted like seawater and melon and wet rocks. I didn’t even hate it. I almost liked it.” thanks*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:51:16 +0000

okay, so i am 4 years old and my mother takes me to red lobster (blech) and orders oysters – she puts one that looks to me like something someone just hacked up on a saltine cracker and orders me to eat it – while i am disgustedly chewing, she says “you know, it's still alive” – i sprayed oyster all over the table, all over the booth, and all over her – i am 37 and i haven't had one since!

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:56:28 +0000

Thanks, Daphne! I shoot with old film cameras, and I love what they do. I often use Polaroid cameras and Polaroid instant film for my blog shots, but for this particular post, I used a Nikon FE 35mm camera and Kodak Portra 400NC film.