Coffee Shop

Today I was sitting in a coffee shop and ended up having a long and roaming conversation with a man who used to own a bar I spent plenty of time in when I was an undergraduate. We talked about neighborhoods in New Haven and then about kayaking the Maine coast and about digital music. And then a woman sat down with us and jumped right into the conversation, which had twisted and turned into the psychotropic reactions to a particular kind of fungus that grows on grains, and which may have explained the strange behavior of the women who were persecuted as witches in Salem. The woman leaped immediately into the conversation, seemingly knowing a great deal about the kinds of fungi that grows on barley and rye and wheat, and the side effects of the fungi and molds as well as the fungicides. Her participation steered the conversation into the various harmful effects that wheat and grains can have on a diet. Also tomatoes. Eliminating all canned tomato products from her own diet cured her carpal tunnel syndrome, this woman announced. She's a physician, apparently, with something of a specialty in food allergies, and cured autism in a child by eliminating wheat from his diet. The fellow who'd formerly owned the New Haven bar I once frequented engaged her in a long conversation about food preferences in children. I sat with my laptop open, trying to work, and delighting in the occasional gregariousness of strangers.

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