Editors Laura Ortega, Rose Hugh, and Travis Hedge Coke Publisher Daniel Rappaport

1 Future Earth Magazine Volume Three (point one!) Food: Hunger & Satiety Editors Laura Ortega, Rose Hugh, and Travis Hedge Coke Publisher Daniel Rappaport www.futureearthstudios.com Future Earth Magazine, vol. 3: Food, compilation copyright © North Hamilton Press, 2009. The individual contributors retain copyright of their own respective works. Future Earth Magazine is published approximately twice a year and is free for download and upload, so long as no part of the compilation Iile is altered in any way. No part, nor the whole, of this collection may be replicated or excerpted, including images and text. 2 A man who limits his interests, limits his life – Vincent Price The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook – Julia Child Enjoy every sandwich – Warren Zevon No hay pan duro para buen hambre ("There is no such thing as stale bread when one has a good appetite") – Spanish proverb Gourmets don't get fat – Julian Street Anything immoral, illegal, fattening, or ON FIRE! – Tennesse Williams, on being asked by Gourmet Magazine what his favorite foods were 3 This issue is dedicated with appreciation of all our staff to Nick and Nora Charles, Julia Child, Cuchulainn, Deirdre Flint, George Foreman, Robert Heinlein, Sasami Masaki Jurai, Emeril Lagasse, and Charlie Nagreen. Mr. Hedge Coke would like to thank his family for their support and for putting up with him, from his mother to his brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, cousins, grandparents, and aunts, and of course, his wonderful Iiancée. He would also like to dedicate this issue to the animals and plants - no small number of them - who gave up their lives for his dietary pleasure; it is always appreciated and too rarely recompensed. -Travis Hedge Coke To my father, mother, and sister; maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather, my cousin Sarah Velez; my cousin Susie and her husband; foodie and/or artistic friends; and the man in my life: with love and thanksgiving for guiso [Mexican riff on stir-fry], sitting me up on the kitchen counter; and making our parents' informal dining room smell like Gramma's kitchen; excellent chiles rellenos and pollo frito en un disco; introducing me to Martha Stewart's recipes and baking cookies with you; vintage cookbooks as well as sukiyaki when you and Susie had been married a few months and a gravy lesson one Thanksgiving; holiday dinners, Persian food, cheese talks, chocolate pumpkin cookies, Baja Fresh-and-Borders nights, arroz con pollo, and talking about food during high school P.E.; and for future frybread and pecan pie. – Laura Ortega I dedicate this issue to Michael Jordan, Andrew Sutton, and the entire team at Disney's Napa Rose. Their royal level quality of both food and guest service has forever changed the way I have both thought about and prepared international cuisine. Thank you. – Daniel Rappaport 4 Contents Gary Murning [an excerpt from] If I Never 007 Jacob McCall Duck Fat 023 The Courtier’s Beatitude 024 Another Celebration – Duluth, Minnesota 1919 025 Rick Marlatt Spring Poem 026 Peaches 028 Opossum 029 Maria Lisella Vinetalk 030 Unruly Herbs 031 Homage to Magritte 032 For the Love of Bread 2 033 What, you don’t love bread? 035 Before It Gets Tough 036 Wendi Lee Knotted Ends 038 The Captain 039 Allyssa Kasoff Generation 040 Feet Torn Street 042 Michael Lee Johnson Nikki Purrs 044 Mateo Navia Hoyos Arthur Sze en Colombia 045 Leigh Held A Chance Encounter 049 Stephanie Hart Dedication 054 John Grey THE YOUNGER POET 055 MY MOTHER SHOWS ME THE OLD HOUSE 056 Richard Godwin Pica 058 5 Daniela Giosefi FROM FOOD COMES ALL or THE EARTH IS… 065 EGGS 066 Jim Fuess Neptune 068 Running Egg 069 Serena J Fox When the Aspen Turn 070 Kibbles & Bits 071 I Want You In A Suit 073 Green Valentine 075 Joolz Denby Wild Town 076 Smokin’ Joe 079 Daniel de Culla Memory of Nothing 081 Tatjana Debeljački Gord-A-Dan 084 Are There 085 Lori Davis Sauce, Or A Force Distributing Itself 086 Only the Sun Decides When it is August 087 Billy Cryer Thanksgiving 088 Memories 089 Brenda Boboige Starbucks Rant 090 Kelly’s Kitchen 092 Christmas Twitches 093 Kimberly L. Becker Word as Fish 094 False Fruit 096 NB – This is a PDF. Search functions are your friend. If you are reading this on paper, trees die because of people like you. If you paid for this, go back to whomever sold it to you and tell them you’re collecting my cut. 6 [An excerpt from] If I Never Gary Murning It had never been a joke that I’d found especially amusing, and George Ruiz was more than well aware of this. Squinting at me through the oddly static cigarette smoke, he waited for my response—seemingly counting off the seconds it took for me to raise the coffee cup to my lips and take a sip. When one was not forthcoming, however, he merely nodded thoughtfully, taking it all in his stride, and leant over the table, winking playfully. “I said,” he said. “‘My dog’s got no nose.’” “I heard you the Iirst time.” “And that’s it? You’re not going to play the game?” We’d been sitting in his mother’s grotty kitchen for the past hour, talking about everything from the state of local politics to the way the rain ran through the dirt on the kitchen window. It had been riveting stuff, and had I had anywhere else to go on such a grey, shitty winter’s afternoon, I would have. As it was, I’d decided that this was at least better than sitting in my Ilat listening to Ray LaMontagne and picking my toenails. Even with the dog joke. 7 I looked about the kitchen at the pots piled up in the sink, the greasy newspapers stacked by the kitchen door and the three in-need- of-emptying litter trays at the side of the sink—and thought that maybe there were advantages to my condition, after all. I was sure that had I shared George’s olfactory ability, I’d have been well on my way to lung cancer, too. Anything to take the edge off it. “So you’re just going to keep right on ignoring me?” he said. “I’m having a bad day.” He sniffed with disgust and lit a fresh cigarette off the butt of the last. “You’re always having a bad day. Your life is one long run of bad days, mate. If you want my opinion—” I didn’t, but that had never stopped him before. “—what you really need to do is, you know, get a fucking grip. Not being offensive, you understand, just telling it like it is.” One of his mother’s cats—Gemini, I think she called it, though for the life of me I didn’t know why—had oozed around the door from the hallway while he had been speaking. George now got to his feet, sticking the cigarette in the corner of his mouth and picking up the moggy by the scruff of the neck. Opening the back door, he threw it out into the rain and returned to his chair at the table. 8 “Bloody things get right on my nipple ends,” he explained. “If it was up to me, I’d drown the bloody lot of them. Or just hit ’em with a good, hefty brick.” “You could always set your dog on them.” “I haven’t got...” George wasn’t the nicest man on the planet, which was understandable, really, since he had never been the nicest boy on the planet, either. He was a bully and a lout—the kind of person I’d always striven to avoid, even as, all those years ago in the school playground, I’d found myself perversely attracted to the prospect of being his friend. He was more than happy to ridicule another’s failings, publicly mocking the dragging-footed gait of cripples and cruelly toasting port-wine stain birthmarks with a nice glass of the house red. But when the joke was on him, when the tables were turned and he found himself caught out, George was unexpectedly generous. His smile would light up the room with its nicotine glow and he would positively chortle at the absurdity of it all. It didn’t do to push it, however—as I’d learnt on more than one occasion. “Bastard,” he chuckled. “Nice one, Price. You got me for a second, there.” He slapped me on the upper arm; a little over one year and one 9 adventure later, it’s still tingling. “Don’t let it happen again.” As the afternoon dragged on, George became increasingly morose. We sat in that kitchen, the light fading completely, the windows misting up (on the outside, George insisted, the room was that cold), and what little conversation there’d been totally dried up. I wanted to leave, but all I had waiting for me were four channels on a cracked fourteen inch television and two working bars on a Iive-bar gas Iire. That and Iive tins of beans and one bottle of Stella. Not the most promising of Saturday nights, then. “I’ve been invited to a party,” George told me, without looking up from the table top. He said “party” as though it were fatal blood disorder. I could understand that. “Yippee.” He raised an eyebrow and smirked at me. “A typical day in Paradise.” “Parties coming out of every oriIice.” “Not that sort of party, I’m afraid,” he said.

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