Here’s today’s central question: should the words “fruit-flavored” and “pasta” ever go together? And if they should, could they ever compare to this lemon parsley pasta with asparagus? Find out as I review two different flavored pastas from a stall at the Pike Place Market.

The berry itself doesn’t taste like much–or so I’ve heard, as I’ve never had a fresh one–but the results are, well, miraculous, thanks to a chemical in the berry called–get this–”miraculin”. When scientists start calling things miracles, you know you’re dealing with something truly special.

At the beginning of Life of Pi, the narrator promises that it is a story to make you believe in God. So let me begin this way: These are macaroons to make you believe in coconut.