[Thank You Rush]

I think as kids, we did put salt on our watermelon but I don’t like it that way now. We had family reunions in the summers and watermelon was always part of those. Never warm - we kept watermelons in the milk house vat to keep cool until eating time...Why were they called vats?

Funny story - one year my husband and I were home (upstate NY) on vacation from CA and we went with my mom and stepdad to a family reunion at Harris Hill, Elmira, NY..My mother forgot to take the watermelon and sent my stepdad to get it. We all thought he’d go to the nearest market to get some but NO, he drove all the way back into PA to their farm to get the watermelon that my mother forgot..

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

My first months in Afghanistan, like most people new to Kabul, I got big-D. The Afghans gave me watermelon with salt. I found out later watermelon with salt is great for rehydration. I still eat that way.

They then gave me liver kabob. It’s easy to digest and nourishing. That was the only time I had it in almost 6 years.