Dan Bldrsbts

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“The world isn’t that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It’s people who are turned upside down.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“North Americans had two distinct ways of looking at food trends brought from other cultures: foreign and ethnic. Foreign was refined, upmarket, and expensive. Ethnic was exotic, downmarket, and cheap. French and Japanese were foreign. Chinese, Mexican, and Indian were ethnic. With ethnic, “people start to complain if a meal costs more than $10,”
― David Sax, The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue

“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions