Julia’s Child?

An eyewitness account:

I am in the kitchen; my newly minted 13-year-old has just boiled some spaghetti for his lunch. He puts the pasta in a glass bowl and then pours upon it a generous portion of … lemon juice.

Yes, you read that correctly: lemon juice.

“Where did you come up with that?” I ask with a grimace, expecting a reference to some of his peers.

“Trial and error,” he replies.

I’m sure that a lot of people would nod. On the other hand, they and my son probably would disagree about whether the results should be filed under “error.”