I Fought the Kale, and the Kale Won
3 min readMar 22, 2020
In which I find a violent way to end my feud with the bitter green
For what seemed like weeks it was there, in my crisper, an ominous green shadow that somehow dared me to open the drawer and release it into the world. Kale, not the cute baby kind, the outlaw of the vegetable world, bitter and ancient. Its presence weighed on me like a bad Lovecraftian evil…