At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.
M. F. K. FisherWar is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist
M. F. K. Fisher