I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
ADAM GOPNIKProtein 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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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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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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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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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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