Georgia Green Stamper – Georgia On Her Mind

I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a sugar plum, but to be honest, I’m not quite sure I know what one is. And a naked turkey from the supermarket is as close as I’ve come to the Cratchit family’s wrung-by-the-neck Christmas goose. Still, when I run across them on the page, I understand, in that wonderful way of shared human experiences, that they are the same holiday treats I remember from my childhood on a Kentucky farm.

“I think I go back over my life — I don’t recommend this by the way — and you pick up, oh, what’d you do that for? Why didn’t you understand this — not just with children, as a parent, but with other people, with friends. So it’s a long period of — it’s not profound regret. It’s just a wiping-up of tiny, little messes that you didn’t recognize as a mess when they were going on.” – Toni Morrison, Interview, April 20, 2015, Fresh Air, NPR

Heroes, I’ve heard, are made, not born. I’d say the same about greatness. You have to be in the right place at the right time for your greatness to get noticed.
 Take Emily Weinstein, the food editor for The New York Times. Not long ago, she wrote a long and serious article for the most widely read newspaper in the world about – are you ready for this –  toasting toast.