CANDLES AND MIRRORS: Try it! You’ll like it!

“Just eat one bite. You need to try it.” It was one of the rules at our supper table when we grew up on the farm. Most often, the rule applied to vegetables. Asparagus, cooked spinach, carrots. We were expected to put one spoonful on our plate. Of course, we had to eat that spoonful, for another rule was “no dessert unless you clean up your plate.” Never did we have to be told we had to...