It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

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

Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.