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Pay attention to your dreams; when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were...more

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Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily h...more

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The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I mistrust it....more

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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

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For about 48 weeks of the year an asparagus plant is unrecognizable to anyone except an asparagus grower. Plenty of summer visitors to our garden have...more

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Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows...more

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Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and ...more

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As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.