Okay okay okay, I said, having watched enough episodes now to understand that composing the idea of a dish that performed well on a show like this was simply a matter of attaining fluency with a certain kind of language. Perhaps this adaptability, this ability to read a situation and accommodate its needs, was one of the only things I had a halfway solid aptitude for, I who had grown up on the other side of the world, and still squared my shoulders and walked into the dyke bar, trusting I could find my way.
