<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t2" style="width: 540px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" class="td2"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Let’s meet in a restaurant</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="middle" class="td2"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" class="td3"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Is food the enemy?<br>Giving a dinner party has become<br>an ordeal. I lie awake the night<br>before figuring how to produce<br><br>a feast that is vegan, gluten free,<br>macrobiotic, avoiding all acidic<br>fruit and tomatoes, wine, all nuts,<br>low carb and still edible.<br><br>Are beetles okay for vegans?<br>Probably not. Forget chocolate<br>ants or fried grasshoppers.<br>Now my brains are cooked.<br><br>Finally seven o’clock arrives<br>and I produce the perfect meal.<br>At each plate for supper, a bowl<br>of cleanly washed pebbles. Enjoy!</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Marge Piercy</div></body></html>