MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: How To

  • Carrots and bananas — and bacon

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 20, 2025 “If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.” — Jon Krakauer Pretty much every time I go to the grocery store, I am grateful for two organic items that remain inexpensive and are a staple in our household: carrots and…

  • Fight for light

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, November 22, 2024 I don’t know the precise science behind the effects of holiday lights on the human brain, but this time of year, I know it’s more than just early Christmas displays that get me veering toward ropes and ropes of tiny bulbs that hold the promise of more sparkles…

  • Smoothalicious

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 5, 2024 Growing up, we had the three standard universal kitchen appliances of the time: the toaster, the blender and the stand mixer – well, not counting the “roaster,” essentially a piece of furniture you could wheel around and roast a large turkey in. I loved that thing. Throughout my…

  • Eating dirt

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 7, 2024 There was a story circulating in our family that my paternal grandmother, who died of complications of diabetes, used to eat dirt as some sort of health remedy. After my father died years later, my 60-something mother told me and my husband after dinner that she herself had…

  • Spice dump

    Spice dump

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 24, 2024 Growing up, there was a single spice rack screwed onto our apricot-colored kitchen wall, the same kind virtually every family in our neighborhood had in the 60s and 70s, with a set of 12 spices that never seemed to diminish over the course of many years, including things…

  • Close quarters

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 3, 2020   After my dad retired from the U.S. Army in the mid 1960s, he went to work for Boeing in Seattle, which was not an easy transition for an officer and a man like him. Less order, less control, more ambiguous freedom. I remember him coming home and…