What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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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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