Image © 2013 Leigh Beisch The essence that is not an essence. Universally unloved, the flaws in wine are as

Image © 2013 Leigh Beisch Few have actually spent time gnawing on a piece of oak, but some know the

Image © 2013 Leigh Beisch The fruit takes its name from the vine on which it grows. But no matter

Image © 2013 Leigh Beisch Before it was the perfume of our sorrows (garlanding poor Ophelia’s demise, no less), it

Image © 2013 Leigh Beisch A childhood spent out-of-doors yields memories of many scents, including the vivid astringency that marked

Image © 2013 Leigh Beisch Perhaps if you were well-behaved or maybe just lucky, your teacher sent you to the

Image © 2013 Leigh Beisch With your eyes closed, even absent the screams of wheeling gulls, and the throaty slap

Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch Pendulous globes of yellow dangling like suns from their leafy boughs must have been tempting

Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch The melon is hard to ignore. Its fullness, dangling awkwardly at the end of a

Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch Bright gems nestled under tiny green canopies represent the perfect summer treasure for fingers small

Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch For what other fruit would Chinese emperors establish networks of galloping couriers to deliver it

Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch Science suggests that the smell of freshly baked bread calms us and stimulates the brain

Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch Which is a better testament to its glory? That the oldest languages we know all

Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch The fifth taste. The molecular expression of savory deliciousness that explains what bacon, chicken soup,

Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch In one simple fruit are all man’s sins remembered. Dully reflected in the freckled orb

Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch Fingers splotchy dark purple, scratched and pricked. Snags and scrapes and dirty knees. The occasional