The primary role that salt plays in cooking is to amplify flavor. Though salt also affects texture and helps modify other flavors, nearly every decision you’ll make about salt will involve enhancing and deepening flavor.
“Every man hangs by a thread, any minute the abyss may open under his feet, and yet he must go and invent for himself all kinds of troubles and spoil his life.”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
“Take for yourself what you can, and don't be ruled by others; to belong to oneself - the whole savour of life lies in that.”
― Spring Torrents
― Spring Torrents
“The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said”
― In Watermelon Sugar
― In Watermelon Sugar
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