All the fruits I never loved
Photo: salad with greens, tomatoes and pineapple with a mustard seed dressing. No arugula was used in the making of this salad. As an adult, there are very few foods I do not like. I can count them on one hand: arugula, licorice, papayas, and... arugula. OK, so there are three foods I do not like. Growing up, that list was quite a bit longer. I didn't care for okra, I wasn't crazy about mango, and I couldn't stand papayas. I also went off of pineapples on one childhood trip to Sri Lanka. Being a tropical country, pineapples were practically falling out of trees. (Pineapples don't grow on trees.) It seemed like every aunty's house we went to, they served pineapple for dessert. Even at restaurants... after a nice meal, here came the pineapple! I got so sick of pineapple that I started telling people I was allergic, to the point that my parents would give me puzzled looks. How could they not know that their daughter was (deathly) allergic to pineapple? Nowadays, I lov...
