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The Art of Eating Watermelon

10/5/2018

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His mother wondered why her one-year-old choked while eating his first sliver of watermelon. Kind of cute but a little worrisome. Watermelon seems like such a natural food for babies, we all agreed so what was it with this summer treat?
 
As it turns out, eating watermelon requires a rare hybrid feat of preparing our throats for swallowing at the same time as we chew. Or all that luscious pinkness will trickle down our throats and cough-cough-cough.
 
I marvel at all that children teach us. And, as if eating watermelon wasn’t pleasure enough, now I’ll always think of this steely-eyed toddler and his first bites of summer.

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