"Food certainly gave us a way not simply of ordering a week or a day but of living inside history, measuring everything we remembered against a chronology of cooks."Sara Suleri I love food. Rather, I love to eat. If I was a better cook I would pro...

"If you have known how to compose your life, you have accomplished a great deal more than the man who knows how to compose a book. All other things - to reign, to hoard, to build - are, at most, inconsiderable props and appendages. The great and glor...

"Daily there is beauty. The wildflowers still exist, even nameless. They know their own names and those are beyond human knowing. Ask me the name of the month and I could say October when it is June, but there is bread and butter. Pleasure. I listen ...

I anoit my flesh/Thought is hallowed in the lean/Oil of solitude/I call you forth, all, upon/Terraces of light. Let the dark/WithdrawI anoint my voice/And let it sound hereafter/Or dissolve upon its lonely passage/In your void. Voices new./Shall rous...