ST. JAMES COTTAGE, HOLYOKE —\u00a0 On Groundhog Day Theo van Winkle-Fadel awoke to a caustic pineapple burning a hole through her 50% fairy tale kitchen, but quick thinking resulted in pineapple preserves and a potato sack on her head.<\/p>\n
“Every New Years Day I take a nap until Ground Hog Day.\u00a0 This year when I dig out the first thing I see is this smoking pineapple.\u00a0 I don’t know where it came from” said Van Winkle-Fadel.\u00a0 She later conceded the fruit may have been purchased during a sleep walking episode to River Valley Coop<\/a>.\u00a0 “What I do know<\/em> is that I’ve never seen a piece of fruit with 0% natural sugar and a negative pH.”<\/p>\n Van Winkle-Fadel is certified in ECR (emergency culinary rescue) and moved quickly to make a pot of jam but when she reached for a chef’s hat they were all gone.\u00a0 “How can you jam<\/em> without a toque<\/em>?” she asked.<\/p>\n All her culinary head wear had been stolen “by a sock elf.”\u00a0 In a mad scurry to find a solution she espied a mesh bag in the potato bin.\u00a0 “I have the same hat size as a five pound sack of potatoes.\u00a0 That’s what saved me” she boasted smiling.<\/p>\n “It’s\u00a0 a shame” remarked an onlooker, “she had time to get something nice.\u00a0 She didn’t want to spend the money.\u00a0 What’s the cost of a hair net?\u00a0 The arts are a hard knock life — look, even the jam jar is only half full.”<\/p>\n Van Winkle-Fadel will, at least, not starve.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ST. JAMES COTTAGE, HOLYOKE —\u00a0 On Groundhog Day Theo van Winkle-Fadel awoke to a caustic pineapple burning a hole through her 50% fairy tale kitchen, but quick thinking resulted in pineapple preserves and a potato sack on her head. “Every New Years Day I take a nap until Ground Hog Day.\u00a0 This year when I … Continue reading The Price of a Hair Net<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,1],"tags":[43,39,21,26,22,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theofadel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}