Keeping the Food On Our Plate Separate
And other childhood gastronomical idiosyncrasies
5 min readMay 16, 2018
When I was a kid I had an eating idiosyncrasy that drove my mother nuts. As she plopped food down onto our plates at the dinner table I immediately went to work with my fork to move the food around on my plate so that no food was touching another food. Everything had to be separated.