Kindle Notes & Highlights
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen. —Joseph Conrad
I would lie awake pondering whether language determined reality, or reality language. I
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are!”
“Cooking is like love—it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
“When shall we live if not now?” —Seneca
When there are warming rays of the sun to absorb, endlessly cresting waves to ride, billowing spinnakers to sail, wild pink roses to inhale, ripening blueberries and raspberries to gather, monumental novels to escape into, cool silver shooting stars to gaze at, and indeed all of summer’s sizzling passion to savor, there is little time left to think of meals in a traditional and boringly balanced fashion.
you will know what it is like to leave the shadowy world of earthly foods and ascend to the purest level of Platonic inception.
The best part of making this pâté is that a good swig or two of the cooking beer always seems to make the assembly of the recipe seem almost effortless.
Those languorous spells of hot, hot, and hazy summer days call for effortless sustenance in a soothing variety of cooling liquid forms.
I believe that soup making is one of the most gratifying experiences of all in the vast spectrum of culinary activities.
A tian is a large round earthenware dish used in Provence for baking gratins.
The pastel colors of crustaceans in varying shades of coral, salmon, apricot, and opalescent pearl seem to appeal to the eye as much as the palate.
So in a weak moment of culinary confession, induced by inhaling the concentrated fumes of arcane hardwoods and vines, I am disclosing these treasured grilling recipes which have never been cooked for the public palate.
There is something at once extravagant and primitive about grilling lobster by the beach.
recommend preparing this dish under the full moon—the most conducive to wild feasting.
no season sustains an aura of continual and refreshing celebration more than summer.
Indeed, there is no simpler sense of gratification (or even mildly rewarding perversion) than to savor extravagantly rich confections on squelching August afternoons.
The chocolate and maple flavoring in the frosting have a wonderful affinity, not unlike that of honeymooners....
Sinking into the soft interior of freshly baked bread is as pacifying as a shady siesta in the hammock.
Faded along with the autumn foliage and crimson moors are the sophisticated flourishes of the summer tourists as the island returns to the somber but cozy gray of its Quaker heritage.
bagna cauda—my
the first snowflakes mingle with the froth of the winter waves at the ocean’s edge,
