Poor Man's Feast

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Dreams and Nightmares and the Epigenetics of Taste [RECIPE]

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Elissa Altman
Oct 25, 2023
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Our carrots, freshly dug. 2022

I told this to my wife recently:

In the last decade, I’ve had a recurring dream that I’m in a dark, tight space; I’m standing and then I’m kneeling. I use my nails to scratch the dirt walls on either side of me, but it is so cold that I lose the feeling in my hands. In the dream, I hear distant thunder, and time cascades for…

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