IN SPIRE
s u g a r a p s A
APPRECIATE THE
Matt Golinski shows appreciation for the metaphorical asparagus and all it has been through.
I
magine for a moment that your destiny was to be born as an asparagus spear. Waiting patiently under the soil all
year until the right conditions arrive,
But what if all the elements you need to reach your full potential don’t eventuate? beautiful physique you imagined
with your vibrant, shining crown and
you’d grow up to have into a spotty,
your smooth, slender body.
floppy stalk.
You’ll be carefully snipped from
Or not enough sunlight means you
the earth and bundled up with your
just end up skinny with a hairdo you
brothers and sisters and you’ll travel
can’t control.
to a luxurious destination and be adorned with buttery sauces. You’ll die knowing what it is to be loved.
From a produce perspective, this year will be remembered as the one when lettuces were practically hard currency, strawberry season never hit its usual glut stage, and eggs became the new toilet paper. And it’s simply come about through a couple of big floods early in the year followed by months of overcast days and intermittent rain which has held newly planted crops back.
you need them to, and you’re left
As if it isn’t hard enough to make a buck in the hospitality industry, a substantial increase in the cost of not just fruit and vegetables, but meat and seafood, dry goods, electricity, gas and wages has made it an even tougher gig.
standing there in the field getting
That hasn’t stopped food businesses
Or heaven forbid, that the snippers and bundlers just don’t show up when
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Whether you’ve entered the world as asparagus, a blueberry, a tomato or a green bean in 2022, chances are you’ve struggled to live your best life.
If anything good comes from this supply crisis, it’ll be that we won’t take for granted how lucky we are to have access to good quality ingredients at very reasonable prices most of the time.
What if too much rain turns that
you’ll burst forth and stun the world
woody and bitter.
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