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Jonathan Miles
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With the notable exceptions of rum drinks, black beans, fat brown cigars, the smiles of pretty girls, hot yellow sunlight, and fat men with guitars and bongos playing mambos, rumbas, and boleros late into the night, nothing in Cuba comes easily. Jonathan Miles
Black Men Girl Nothing Late Rum Easily Sunlight Guitars Pretty Pretty Girls Brown Beans Drinks Exceptions Hot Smiles Cuba Yellow Notable Fat Playing Night
Paddleboarding is what happens when you want to kayak on a surfboard or surf a kayak: You stand atop a board paddling yourself around. It's a leisurely good time. Jonathan Miles
Time Good You Yourself Good Time Around Surf Want Happens Leisurely Board Paddling Stand
Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked. Jonathan Miles
Grace Bird Few Dramatically Plucked However Few Things Cooked Whole Plate Things
Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure. Jonathan Miles
Pleasure Bacon Plus Civilization Trout Equals Greatest Always Formulas
A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew - often served, like chipped beef, over toast - that was a delicacy popular in the 1890s. Jonathan Miles
Game Delicacy Over Like Stew Beef Often Toast Popular Served
Though we tend to reach for the bacon or sausage, fish and eggs are a classic breakfast combination in many places around the world, and for good reason: They're great together. Jonathan Miles
Good Great Together World Breakfast Though Bacon Classic Good Reason Tend Combination Reach Around Fish Eggs Places Reason Many Sausage
Grilling grapes may sound crazy, but the smoky, blistered char they get from a few minutes on the fire gives them a deep, winelike character. Jonathan Miles
Character Crazy Fire Few Minutes Gives Smoky Sound Get May Grilling Them Grapes Deep
I first encountered fish jerky during a marlin tournament in Kona, Hawaii. It was steeped in the island flavors of ginger, soy, and pineapple. Jonathan Miles
First Marlin Ginger Hawaii Tournament Island Fish Encountered Soy Flavors
You can't rent a car in Bermuda; about twenty miles long and two miles wide at its fattest, it deems itself too small for surplus traffic. Jonathan Miles
You Car Long Too Fattest About Small Rent Surplus Traffic Itself Miles Twenty Wide Two
Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the whole shebang. Jonathan Miles
Own Unlike Melodies Entities Poems Songs Written Self-Contained Thus Come Read Equipped Rhythms Whole
A banal poem is never more than a banal poem. A banal or trite lyric, however, can be - with the right vocal cords - brilliantly and shatteringly conveyed. Jonathan Miles
Lyric Trite Vocal Vocal Cords Poem More Never However Banal Than Conveyed Right Brilliantly Cords
Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of certain emotional integers. It can be like viewing a loved one's X-rays. Jonathan Miles
Song Lyrics Something Absence Emotional Missing Like Most Likely Read Cherished Encountered Sensation Anyone Loved Hollow Certain Viewing Ever
The South's cuisine is often likened to gumbo - a thick and bubbling melange, spiked with a little bit of this, a little bit of that - yet the metaphor, like the dish, comes from West Africa. Jonathan Miles
Bit Bubbling Like Metaphor Cuisine West South Often Africa Dish Little Little Bit Thick
The greatest meal of my life involved a Triscuit. Jonathan Miles
Life My Life Meal Involved Greatest
The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. Jonathan Miles
College Mint College Football Sacred Football South May Stop Us Enjoying
I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona; and, after running away from home in my teens to play music and bouncing around a bit, settled in Oxford, Mississippi, which I consider more my home than anywhere else in the world. Jonathan Miles
Music Home World Else Settled Consider Teens Bit Phoenix Running Running Away Born More Primarily Arizona Bouncing Mississippi Cleveland Around Than Ohio Oxford After Which Anywhere Anywhere Else Away Play Play Music Raised
I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life. Jonathan Miles
Life Class My Life Took Say Embarrassed Never Journalism Proud Either
So much magazine writing is playing to an empty room. You work like a plow horse, your words get printed on a half-million or more copies, and then it often just disappears into this national vacuum. Jonathan Miles
Work You Writing Words National Plow Magazine More Horse Disappears Like Empty Printed Get Often Just Room Then Much Your Copies Playing Vacuum
Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food. Jonathan Miles
Sad Food Clown Bad Food Chain Road Almost Without Always Chain Strenuous
The enemy of successful long-term freezing is air. When air meets food, dehydration occurs, leading to freezer burn. With delicate proteins like fish, freezer burn can be downright fatal, ruining both texture and flavor. Jonathan Miles
Food Enemy Meets Air Ruining Both Delicate Leading Long-Term Like Freezer Freezing Proteins Occurs Fish Texture Burn Flavor Successful Downright Fatal
Dry rubs are as integral to downhome barbeque as smoke. Jonathan Miles
Rubs Dry Smoke Integral
In the South, dove hunts do not draw quietly to a close. Sometimes, at the simplest end, a grill and cooler are hauled to the edge of the field, and the doves' breasts are grilled - usually swaddled in bacon, maybe with a jalapeno tucked inside - as the hunters tell and retell tales of the day's shooting. Jonathan Miles
Day Sometimes Edge Field Draw Hunt Tell Bacon Hunters Inside Hauled Simplest Tales South End Close Quietly Shooting Tucked Maybe Grill Breasts Dove Doves Cooler
Of course, there's nothing wrong with deer burgers and venison chili, but with a little gusto, those stalwarts can go from satisfying to sublime. Jonathan Miles
Nothing Those Gusto Wrong Course Go Sublime Chili Little Satisfying Deer
If everything is disposable or recyclable, how does that make us feel about ourselves and each other? Jonathan Miles
Other Everything Ourselves About Feel Make Does How Us Each Disposable
It drives me crazy to throw something out. I find planned obsolescence revolting. Jonathan Miles
Me Crazy Out Find Something Throw Drives Obsolescence Revolting Planned
Bullies are bullies, and they're always uninteresting. Jonathan Miles
Always Bullies Uninteresting
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