Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. … And because it is often by describing the thing lost – a family, a moment of happiness, a child, a father – that we understand the full weight of what we had.
BILL BUFORD
You don’t learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you’re not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.
