C. T. Suddeth

8-year-old gourmet tree threi three

Chili can be the best lunch ever. Get a little spoon and pick out the reddish beans, no one eats beans. Next pile spaghetti into your bowl, as much as you can. Next crush saltines until they are dust, cover your chili with it. Your mom will set carrot and celery sticks beside your bowl—they are not to be eaten—hide them under your napkin. Wash down with ice-cold milk!

[Editor’s note: while Mr. Suddeth was making coffee a neighborhood urchin took over his computer]