And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.
Interpretation
Homemade food fosters lasting happiness and shared joy in our lives.
This quote emphasizes the enduring joy that comes from sharing homemade food with others. While various passions may fade or change over time, the happiness derived from good cooking and sharing meals remains a constant and cherished part of life, highlighting the deep emotional connections food creates among people.
In practice
During a family gathering, I shared this quote to emphasize the importance of our homemade meals together.
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too... Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it.
Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.
I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.
I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.
Barbecue is an incredibly democratic food. It's cheaper than McDonald's in many places and far more delicious. On the other hand, the only reason it can be that cheap is they use commodity hogs, the worst of the worst, which is - you know, it's an industry kind of ruining North Carolina.
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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