Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
ADAM GOPNIKSomething is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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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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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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