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“I love the treat and pleasure of eating when it becomes an act of focused giving and sharing...Wasting money and appetite on bad food is disappointing, but it doesn't matter when the company is good...[T]here's a lot to be said for eating as a social act. It's a treat, even when the food is bad.”
― Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
― Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
“Anyone who can fail to rejoice in the enticing squish/crunch of a fast-food French fry, or the delight of a warmed piece of grocery-store donut, is living half a life”
― Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
― Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
“When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future.”
― Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
― Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
“For a large part of human history, people didn't really know how a woman's body worked. This is mainly because for much of human history, a woman's body was either too sacred or too sexual to study.”
― Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
― Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
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