The health craze had finally caught up to me. In 2011, friends were offering to meet for cold-pressed juice instead of coffee and I often wondered if avocado might hold solutions for my most-pressing problems. I had been raised in a Long John Silver and Cinnamon Toast Crunch kind of household, so many of the foods that experts were labeling as “super” were ones that I had either never heard of or had tried but dismissed as inedible.