Eventually you get used to it

For good and for bad your body adapts

Every summer when vegetables are at their peak and all my favorite produce (tomatoes, onions, spinach) is in abundance, I wonder how I’m ever going to go back to the supermarket for my groceries.

I can’t stand the lack of taste and character that I’ve grown to associate with apples flown in from Chile, or tomatoes grown in a greenhouse.

At the end of every summer I wonder what I’ll eat all winter.

But slowly necessity (nutrition) outweighs wants (local produce) and I find myself walking along the wall of produce picking out what to make.

The lack of taste and texture eventually fades, and by summer I’m surprised all over again at the difference between local and imported food.