RESURRECTION FROM TASTE BUDS ABANDONMENT UNDER THE PERSISTENT ATTACKS OF DRIVE-THROUGH CHOW.......

The sweet potato that had been hidden under a magazine, is still delicious.......I'm cooking only with abandoned stuff.....the last of this and that......emptying bottles, jars, cans and bags of their contents and creating edible taste delectations from their remaining excavated or drained contents.....sweet, hot, sour and spicy, in complex combinations, is the usual 'default'.....Just yesterday, washing dishes, I listened to NPR.....Bee Wilson, discussing with Terry Gross, the forming and shaping of a child's tastes........The introduction of complex and unusual taste combinations to children, during early development, will more likely produce adults with wide range of tastes and more experimental approaches to novelty and their acceptance of the unfamiliar....This may account for the coolness of the Thai people, the dullness of the British, and the extreme omnivorousness of the desperate and the creative.....

How about some tiny baby bok choy, stir-fried with sunflower kernels, oyster sauce, chillis, sriracha hot chili sauce, recaito culantro, and chopped garlic......topped with couscous salad of chopped dates, almonds, garbanzo beans and lemon zest......with an 'accent' drizzle of sweet red chili paste and olive oil........to dispel the perpetual visits of PBJs, chips and 'bag food'.......