It’s in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it’s among the remains of a meal or when your’re elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you’re sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.

A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.
BENOITE GROULT

Aspect Civilization Extinction Itself
If we don’t watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs. . . .
BENOITE GROULT

Art Civilization Cooking Gained Invention Life Pleasure Watch
It’s in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it’s among the remains of a meal or when your’re elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you’re sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.
BENOITE GROULT

Among Deep Elbows Kitchen Life Place Room Sitting

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