Don't eat watermelon alone!

We seem to be having a later than usual harvest this year in the Portland Metro area due to a late spring front, so I'd guess we are still a few weeks away from the heavenly watermelons from Hermiston, Oregon. Not surprisingly, I've been seeing "Personal Watermelons" in my local grocery store since about May.

I won't go so far as to say a personal watermelon is a crime against humanity, but they are just WRONG.

In our NWEI "Menu for the Future" discussion group, one of our first exercises was to recall a childhood memory about food. One that occurred to me was a particularly memorable post t-ball game party when my  brother and I were young. It was in our backyard. It was summer. We had a whole mess of people over. We had watermelon. We spit the seeds and teased each other about watermelons growing in our stomachs if we accidentally ate a seed. This is how watermelon should be eaten. A watermelon is a reason for a party.

Don't eat watermelon alone.