Status Updates From Outlaw Cook

"Our cuisine has become a Borges fable or an Escher print, a universe crammed with cookbook writers all passing the same recipes around and around."

On olive picking: "With it also comes the rich sense of fellowship that a genuine sharing of labor entails, an act accomplished at no one's expense and to everyone's benefit."

"There comes a critical moment in learning a craft when the pleasure taken in the *idea* of doing something ("Look, Ma - I'm baking bread") is replaced by a total absorption in the thing made: suddenly it has become strong enough to sustain interest all by itself."

"Tracts were written in England when tea began to edge out ale as the workingman's friend: ale was rich in nutrients, healthy, home-brewed.."

really dig the writing style so far.