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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.”
― The Art of Eating
― The Art of Eating
“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
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Lisa’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Business, Children's, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fiction, Food, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Science, Science fiction, Travel, Asian American Interest, food-writing, coming-of-age, and new-adult
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