It takes us roughly 20 minutes to unload 80 boxes of frozen fish from the back of the refrigerated semi-truck parked in front of Kmart. The floor of the truck is slick with condensation, and I concentrate on not falling by imagining the spectacle: two boxes worth of sockeye salmon scattering into the air, a pause, then 35 pounds of solidly frozen seafood raining down at 9.81 m/s2.
The fish fills two station wagons, one S.U.V., one pickup truck. Yes, it smells a bit fishy. The recipes, however, are mouthwatering: dill and sour cream and coconut milk and fennel pollen, the latter of which sounds as if it belongs in a magician's incantation.
The fish is bound for residential freezers throughout Ann Arbor; local orders and delivery are coordinated by members of the informally-organized Ann Arbor Wild Salmon Minyan. We shall save the wit and why of their acronym for another day.
The fish fills two station wagons, one S.U.V., one pickup truck. Yes, it smells a bit fishy. The recipes, however, are mouthwatering: dill and sour cream and coconut milk and fennel pollen, the latter of which sounds as if it belongs in a magician's incantation.
The fish is bound for residential freezers throughout Ann Arbor; local orders and delivery are coordinated by members of the informally-organized Ann Arbor Wild Salmon Minyan. We shall save the wit and why of their acronym for another day.
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i've never heard of fennel pollen - did you try it? you're mixing your units... pounds - english, meters per second squared - metric, minyan - hebrew.
i'm putting fennel pollen on the fairies' shopping list.
it is a dizzying array of units of measurement. regardless, 80 boxes of fish, whether weighed in pounds or kilograms or by the half ton, would feel no lighter unless their contents were still in the sea. (not that my stomach, nor my father, would wish this upon the fillet in the freezer.)
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