Stacey

“This is the gift of travel. New places change your idea of what life can be.”
― Laure Dugas, Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine--and Life--the American Way

“Like it or not, we are irrevocably a product of our time and place.”
― Laure Dugas, Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine--and Life--the American Way

“I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice-and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.”
― Robin Sloan, Sourdough

“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:
A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore