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You take on the food of another country at your peril. Do it, and you inevitably loosen your own cultural moorings, and destabilise your fundamental sense of identity. It’s a risky business.
“I’m expecting to open this book in ten years and cringe like I’m staring at a picture of myself with a bad haircut. I’m looking forward to it.”
― Eat a Peach
― Eat a Peach
“Women got that feeling about him, that funny one we all get when we know something isn’t right, but we don’t know how to politely extricate ourselves from the situation without escalating the threat of violence or harassment. That is not a skill women are taught, the same way men are not taught that it is okay to leave a woman alone if what she wants is to be left alone.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“Excited, afraid, homeless, fat, dying, but at least if we made that first step we had somewhere to go, we had a purpose. And we really didn’t have anything better to do at half past three on a Thursday afternoon than to start a 630-mile walk.”
― The Salt Path
― The Salt Path
“Zac had never been a particularly reliable narrator of his own life, but even in the darkest moments of the past two years, neither Matthew nor Rachelle had ever guessed that he could be running around adult London pretending to be somebody else altogether—much less doing so in a manner that real adults, people of substance, might actually fall for.”
― London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
― London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
“China was not the totalitarian state of my London friends’ imagination, but neither was it open, and for a newcomer it was impossible to gauge the boundaries. Even the locals found it confusing. The juddering old framework of the state economy was falling apart, along with the political controls of the Maoist era. No one really knew the rules. The whole country, waking up after the nightmare of Maoism, was making it up as it went along.”
― Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
― Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
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Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
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