Food Writing Prompt : Write about a kitchen gadget you or someone you love
bought late at night online or via TV or as a whim at the store. Did the gadget
work well or disappointingly?
It might be true that
life changed when I bought a Vitamix in the year 2000. It seemed like an enormous investment (and
also ridiculous that a contraption made of metal and plastic should cost as
much as a room in an apartment in New York City where I lived at the time) ,
but I was working a short term consulting job where I made $400/day and I
figured that the Vitamix (at $399) was
my reward for one day’s work.
It came in a big cardboard
box emblazoned with a photo of itself filled with whole fruits and vegetables,
surrounded by happy and healthy customers.
The contraption was covered in mounds of plastic and peanuts, a clear
polycarbonate blender jar and what felt like a 46 pound base with knobs and
wheels and an electric cord that wrapped around its innards.
I plugged it in and essentially
threw in the contents of my fridge’s Crisper drawers, just like the commercials
indicate and next thing I knew there was a glowing emerald green purple smoothie concoction in my blender jar which
quickly made its way into a glass and then down my gullet.
