"In November", Cynthia Rylant says, "the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and a pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year."
How could I resist then, waking up this morning in the sleet and cold and cloud and toasting oats and pecans, grating frozen butter, zesting an orange. The result: maple glazed pecan scones that my children will hardly touch. (More for me.) And JG saying as he came downstairs, 'are we having ORANGE for breakfast?' Which we did.
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