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• Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost…
• The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.
• Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it…
• You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but…
• The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.
• You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus…
• The crowd is not us. It never is.
• In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime…
• Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It…

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