I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.