Prologue: The Question
I did expect to spend a Tuesday afternoon asking myself whether the most basic biological drive in the human animal—the one responsible for every single person reading this sentence being alive—qualifies as a luxury. A luxury is supposed to be a private jet. A handbag made from the skin of an animal that went extinct last Tuesday. A bottle of water that...
Part 1: Food — The Religion of the Table
The Sacred and the Everyday
There is a moment, about three bites into your first real French meal, when something shifts. It is not just that the food tastes good — though it does, intensely. It is that you realize you have been eating wrong your entire life. Not badly, necessarily. But wrong. As if you had been speaking a language with...
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