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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I read the opening lines of the book, and it’s like my own pages are coming unstuck. For so long, all I’ve felt is fear, and all this time, it was grief. I continue reading, remembering why
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“Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical heirloom, they remind us from whom and where we came and give others, in a bite, the story of another people from another place and another time. Yet unlike a lost physical heirloom, recipes are a part of our history that can be re-created over and over again. The only way they can be lost is if we choose to lose them.”
― Taste: My Life Through Food
― Taste: My Life Through Food
“I wanted to kiss him. Possibly break a bottle and stab him first. But then definitely kiss him.”
― Kingdom of the Cursed
― Kingdom of the Cursed
“when my parents are no longer alive, I will always be able to put their teachings and all the love they gave me into a bowl and present it to someone who sadly will never have had the good fortune of knowing them. But by eating that food, they will come to know them, if even just a little.”
― Taste: My Life Through Food
― Taste: My Life Through Food
“(Let’s face it, if men had to give birth, there would probably be only a total of about 47 people living on the face of the earth today as opposed to billions, and abortion clinics would be just another department in Walmart alongside auto parts, golf gear, and firearms.)”
― Taste: My Life Through Food
― Taste: My Life Through Food
“But a person’s life is their own. Few sins are greater than trying to squeeze someone else into the shape you require them to be.”
― Woodworking
― Woodworking
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