Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.
Barbara KingsolverOur childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
Barbara KingsolverA certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
Barbara Kingsolver