Food for though, huh? Listen, I'm an author who's fat. Or perhaps I'm a fat man who happens to be an author. Whichever. But I will acknowledge that food plays an important role in my life, probably too important a role. And as with many parts of my life, my love for food plays an important role in my writing. I spend some time in many of my works talking about what the characters eat and drink. I'll talk about a few of them with you. In my short story "Shug," appearing in the anthology Shadows Over Main Street 2 , the setting is a farm in the years right after World War II. The main character, Vesta, has lost her husband in that conflict and lets the farm fall into decrepitude. Along comes Shug, and he helps her get the place back into shape so that he can plant some…well, you'll have to read the story to find out exactly what he plants. But there are plenty of scenes of eating, all good, 1950s farmhouse stuff—fried chicken and...
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