Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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