Eating Well Is the Best Revenge

Once a week or so I cook crabcakes with black beans and brown rice,

yogurt, salsa, a habañero pepper sauce, and a hoecake made with

waterground cornmeal. I use Hoover’s. Made in Bonifay, or Chipley.

The plate is from the Noritake China service we got for a wedding present.

It’s the last one left. The paring knife is a Russell-brand Green River Works.

I always like to have a Green River knife handy. Potter headed and gutted

mullet with them. Not the paring knife, the one the seine-fishermen use.

Or used to use. Seine-fishing put out of business

by the net ban constitutional amendment.

I buy them when I see them at garage sales

or flea markets. Also old ground-down

Forschner knives. I call them recycled.