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Jonathan Miles
Always
Good
Life
Long
Me
You
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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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