Patty

“When I give you this plate, I give you the nourishment you need to continue to live and yet I also change how you see the world. I offer you a creation that allows you to see a single fresh carrot in a way that you have never seen it before, in a way that bespeaks not only its beauty but the unexpected possibilities of roots buried in the earth--I make them sing. I give this carrot a new life, which, because you eat it, will give you life. It becomes part of your very skin, hair and teeth. And so, when you address the plate, you must ask yourself where in this beauty is the knowledge that there is a God? Where is the evidence of His love?”
― N.M. Kelby, White Truffles in Winter

“Their union had always seemed a near-perfect balance: strong individuals married together to make a separate entity greater than either of them alone, a mystery unfathomable even to themselves.”
― Erin Hart, Lake of Sorrows

“For sometimes when we wonder, we can make things begin to happen.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School

“Having a mind that cannot stay quiet, I've never been able to meditate without going stir-crazy. But give me a ball of dough and the not-so-distant dream of a piping hot cherry tart with a beautiful lattice-weave top and a generous sprinkling of confectioners sugar, and a feeling of serenity washes over me. My mind instantly hushes.”
― Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family