Shrimp Cocktail Is An Anytime Food

Reject the holiday paradigm!

It’s the first week of the new year and to borrow a line from a 2000s Ben Gibbard-vocalized song, I don’t feel any different. If I were a person capable of the concept known as relaxing, or maybe if I didn’t have COVID right before Christmas, or perhaps if I hadn’t returned from a 10 day isolation to find an unpleasant fruit fly infestation in my apartment, I would have started the new year refreshed, or just ready to start a new project. Instead, I have hurtled into 2022 the same way I left 2021: exhausted, bracing for bad…